About the Authors

GORDON THOMAS is the author of fifty-six books. Several were Main Selections for the US Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Seven of his books are major motion pictures, including Voyage of the Damned, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and the TV movie Enola Gay. Experiences won the Jury’s and Critics’ prizes at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

He holds an Edgar Award for Shipwreck. In April 2006 he received the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism.

He has written extensively on all aspects of the work of the global intelligence community for over forty years.

His Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad became a major documentary, which he wrote and narrated for Britain’s Channel 4, and was later shown worldwide. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s key personnel. The book has been published internationally and is in its seventh edition.

Thomas writes on intelligence matters for the Daily Telegraph (UK), Welt Am Sonntag and Bild (Germany), Wprost (Poland), and the Daily Telegraph (Australia). He has been a regular broadcaster on current affairs for the BBC and US networks and has lectured widely on the intelligence world.

GREG LEWIS is a journalist, documentary maker, and writer. He has written a dozen nonfiction books on a variety of subjects, including history, popular culture, and sports. He also works as a ghostwriter.

He has produced more than sixty documentaries for television and radio and has won major broadcast awards from BAFTA Cymru and the Guild of Health Writers UK.

His biography of Irish American prizefighter Tom Sharkey, I Fought Them All, which Lewis wrote with his wife, Moira Sharkey, won a Wishing Shelf nonfiction award.

His journalism has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times (UK), Private Eye (UK), and Military History (US).

Greg lives in Wales with Moira and their two children, Evan and Caoimhe.