Pete Earley (born September 5, 1951) is an American journalist and author who has written

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books and novels.

Career

Born in

Douglas, Arizona Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running Sulpher Springs Valley. Douglas has a border crossing with Mexico at Agua Prieta and a history of mining. The population was 16,531 ...

, Earley became a ''

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'' reporter and also wrote books about the

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and John Walker espionage cases. His book ''Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town'' (1995), about the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian in Alabama, won an

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from the

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for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996. His book about the John Walker spy ring, ''Family of Spies'', was a ''

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'' bestseller. It was adapted as a CBS miniseries starring Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. In 2007, Earley was a finalist for a

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for his book ''Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness'', about a man seeking help for his son. His 2008 book, '' Comrade J'', is about Russian SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301749.html, https://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

Family

Pete's older sister, Alice Lee Earley, died at the age of 17 on June 14, 1966, after being hit by a car while riding Pete's scooter. (Pete was 14 years old and at church camp when his sister was killed.) Years later, in a 1985 ''Washington Post'' article called "To Find a Sister" (1985), Earley wrote about Alice's death and its effect on his life. (As part of it, he interviewed the woman driver who had hit his sister.)

Bibliography

Non-fiction

* ''Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring'', Bantam (October 1, 1988), * ''Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings'', William Morrow & Co (October 1991), * ''The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison'', Bantam (February 1, 1992), * ''Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town'', Bantam (August 1, 1995), * ''Confessions of A Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames'', Putnam (February 10, 1997), * ''Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas'', Bantam (January 4, 2000), * ''WITSEC: Inside The Federal Witness Protection Program'', Bantam (January 29, 2002), * ''Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness'', Berkley (April 3, 2007), * ''Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War'', Putnam (January 24, 2008), * ''The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers'', Touchstone (January 10, 2012), * '' Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness'' by Jessie Close and Pete Earley, Grand Central Publishing, (January 13, 2015),

Fiction

*''The Big Secret'', Forge Books (June 1, 2004), *''Lethal Secrets'', Forge Books (June 1, 2005), *''The Apocalypse Stone'', Forge Books (June 13, 2006), *''Duplicity: A Novel'', Center Street Press (October 2015), co-author

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*''Treason: A Novel'', Center Street Press (October 2016), co-author

* ''Vengeance: A Novel'', Center Street Press (October 10, 2017), co-author

, * ''Collusion: A Novel'', Broadside Books (April 30, 2019), co-author

, * ''Shakedown: A Novel'', Broadside Books (March 24, 2020), co-author

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Earley, Pete 1951 births American male journalists People from Douglas, Arizona American political writers Living people