Pete Earley

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

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

His 2008 book, Comrade J, is about Russian SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov.^[3]

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 0-425-21389-7
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War, Penguin Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-399-15439-3,
The Serial Killer Whisperer, Touchstone; (January 10, 2012), ISBN 978-1-4391-9902-2,
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness; Grand Central Publishing; (January 2015), ISBN 978-1-4555-3022-9

The Big Secret
Lethal Secrets
The Apocalypse Stone
Duplicity by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley; Center Street; (October 2015), ISBN 978-1-4555-3042-7