James Bamford

James Bamford is the bestselling author of Spyfail, The Puzzle Palace, The Shadow Factory, A Pretext for War, and Body of Secrets. He is also an Emmy-nominated filmmaker for PBS, award-winning investigative producer for ABC News, and winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his writing in Rolling Stone on the war in Iraq. He has also circumnavigated the surface of the earth, crossing every meridian of longitude by land and sea, and was elected to membership in the Explorers Club.