Name Pete Earley | Role Journalist | |
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Awards Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominations Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Books Comrade J, Confessions of a spy, The Hot House: Life Inside Le, Circumstantial Evidence, WITSEC | ||
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Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books and novels.
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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. 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. In 2007, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Crazy.
His 2008 book, Comrade J, is about Russian SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov.
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