The Spy's Cure was in his Guitar

Meet Ron Capps, a war-scarred intelligence veteran 'writing his way home'

As a CIA-trained Army intelligence officer and later crisis-scene diplomat with the State Department, Ron Capps was inserted into the middle of some of the world’s worst catastrophes of the 1990s and beyond, from Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan to the civil wars and genocide raging across Central and East Africa. He eventually reached a breaking point in D…