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One Perfect Story: Chris Jones on "The Things That Carried Him"

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How I Pitched My Story to Peter Granger

The story starts with Montgomery's burial in Indiana and then proceeds backwards in time to his death in Iraq. "I remember feeling good about the writing, but I also remember being terrified about the length," he says. The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $16.99.

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