Pete Earley
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Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books.
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[edit] Career
A former Washington Post reporter, he is author of espionage books about the Aldrich Ames and the John Walker cases. He was a winner of Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996 for "Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town." [1]. 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 was about Russian SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov [2] [3], [4] [5]
[edit] His books
[edit] 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 Fathers 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,
[edit] Fiction
- The Big Secret
- Lethal Secrets
- The Apocalypse Stone
