Michael now has a US publisher for his book. Random House was the high bidder at an auction set up by his literary agent. The description: CNN foreign correspondent and former Time Magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware’s BETWEEN ME AND THE DEAD, the author’s unvarnished first-hand account about the brutal experience of war, by one of the few mainstream reporters to have lived in Baghdad near-continuously since before the American invasion of Iraq … no date information was included in the announcement.