Ray Murphy

Check out Ray Murphy's new novel, Rum Soldier, first published on Kindle Vella. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09FKN3RB3

Rum Soldier is now available in paperback: https://us.amazon.com/Rum-Soldier-Ray-Murphy/dp/B09P1XFQP9

Mr. Murphy has worked as a reporter and editor on daily papers in Portland, Oregon and Long Beach, California. TriQuarterly and Poet Lore have published his poetry. Here's what one unfortunate reviewer of his first novel, SIEGE OF GRESHAM (AK Press, 1997), wrote in a delirium of generosity:

"… a book of sheer calamity, an embodiment of shooting out the sun.... What ensues is outlandish, absurd, hilarious, and above all, intelligent. In each of Murphy's characters there lies a mammoth sense of loss and disillusionment, but he manages to juxtapose the various tragedies with a great sense of f-all humor. There are certain points in the book so rousing with description, so precise, you read them over and over." Maximum RocknRoll