Pete Earley

Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books.

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. [http://us.macmillan.com/author/peteearley] This book helped free an innocent man from the death row in Alabama. 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. He was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Crazy".

His most recent book, "Comrade J", is about Russian SVR defector
Sergei Tretyakov. [http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=hsnews-000002657689http://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]

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 0425213897
*"Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War", Penguin Books, 2007, ISBN-13 978-0-399-15439-3,

Fiction

*"The Big Secret"
*"Lethal Secrets"
*"The Apocalypse Stone"

References

External links

[http://www.peteearley.com/home/ His official site]