Lethal Minds Journal
1. Who are you, what have you written, and why?
In almost two decades as a Washington journalist, I covered the Pentagon, Congress, the State Department, the White House and the CIA. From 1994 to 2007, I served in TIME Magazine’s Washington Bureau, first as a correspondent and then as a senior correspondent. At TIME, I covered foreign affairs extensively as a diplomatic correspondent, traveling throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East as well as in the Persian Gulf region. I came to TIME in 1994 from Newsweek, where I reported on major military conflicts from the Gulf War to Somalia to Haiti. Before joining Newsweek in 1988, I served as a legislative assistant on the staffs of Senator William Proxmire and then-Representative Edward J. Markey. The Determined Spy is my seventh book on the military or intelligence. For my historical biographies I’ve gravitated toward charismatic yet controversial figures. World War II spy chief Wild Bill Donovan, the subject of one of my biographies, was certainly that kind of figure. People either loved or hated him. Frank Wisner, my latest biographic subject, was that as well. Few were neutral on him. I find as a biographer, that these kinds of subjects are more interesting—and challenging—to tackle.
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