Pete Earley
Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books and novels.
Career
A former Washington Post reporter, he is the author of books about the Aldrich Ames and John Walker espionage cases. His book Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town. won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996.[1] His book about John Walker spy ring, Family of Spies, was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a CBS miniseries starring Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. In 2007, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Crazy.[2]
His 2008 book, Comrade J, is about Russian SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov.[3]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
- Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring
- Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings
- The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
- Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town
- Confessions of A Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames
- Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas
- WITSEC: Inside The Federal Witness Protection Program
- Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, Berkley Trade; (April 3, 2007), ISBN 0-425-21389-7
- Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War, Penguin Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-399-15439-3,
- The Serial Killer Whisperer, Touchstone; (January 10, 2012), ISBN 978-1-4391-9902-2,
- Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness; Grand Central Publishing; (January 2015), ISBN 978-1-4555-3022-9
Fiction
- The Big Secret
- Lethal Secrets
- The Apocalypse Stone
- Duplicity by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley; Center Street; (October 2015), ISBN 978-1-4555-3042-7
References
- ^ Pete Earley (2009-12-04). "Pete Earley | Authors | Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ^ "2007 finalists". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
- ^ http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=hsnews-000002657689 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301749.html, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-26-592200836_x.htm, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/03/31/comrade_j_by_pete_earley?page=full&comments=true