God in the Pits The Enron-jihad Edition

Mark Andrew Ritchie featured in Schwagers bestselling Market Wizards II grew up in the poverty and strangeness of Afghanistan the deep south of Texas and an Oregoncoast logging town. The Vietnam War crystallized his love of rebellion. He became an occupational vagabondfuneral home operative Chicago Transit bus driver longhaul trucker jail guard and morean unlikely backdrop for launching a career in the takenoprisoners financial markets of Chicago. But as a backdrop for a writer Perfect. Ritchie has been quoted Islamic people are the kindest most loving most hospitable people in the world. Then he claims that when he saw the second plane hit tower one he knew that the Islamic people he played with as a child had finally brought their jihad to America. Is he credible Ritchie theorizes that America has a blind spotspiritual engagement. Nineteen hijackers traveled spiritual roads that caused that fateful day. We avoid this discussion; its too personal. God in the Pits is Ritchies personal jihad. One event forced the questionsthe sudden death of Mark's father in faraway Afghanistan where the elder Ritchie was constructing a provincial hospital for the treatment of blindness. To Mark the contrast between his life and that of his father was brutal "His goal was to do God's will by serving the Afghan poor; mine was to buy low and sell high." As Mark travels back to his boyhood in Afghanistan to settle his father's affairs and see to his mother's hospital care he casts back over his early experiences with death with a life too full of the unexpected and with nagging inner questions over things that matter most.Ritchie, Mark Andrew is the author of 'God in the Pits The Enron-jihad Edition' with ISBN 9780974719085 and ISBN 0974719080.