Rice is a journalist with 45 years of experience. Cole has studied Bon for 20 years and has extensive connections within the worldwide Bon community. This combination of Rice’s professional writing skills with Cole’s intimate knowledge of Bon and personal relationships with the subjects of the story makes them the only writing team that could tackle this story told in their book, Ambush at Muro Ri..

Rice worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle for 18 years, leaving the newspaper in 2017. Rice previously worked as a reporter and editor for the Pacific Beach Sentinel in San Diego, Calif; the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss.; the Mexico City News; and United Press International in Mexico City, London, Miami and Washington, D.C.