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Pete Earley (born September 5, 1951) is an American journalist and author who has written non-fiction books and novels. Career Born in Douglas, Arizona, Earley became a Washington Post reporter and also wrote books about the Aldrich Ames 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 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996. His book about the John Walker spy ring, Family of Spies, was a New York Times bestseller. It was adapted as a CBS miniseries starring Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. In 2007, Earley was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize 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. 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), ISBN 978-0-5530-5283-1 Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings, William Morrow & Co (October 1991), ISBN 978-0-6881-0584-6 The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, Bantam (February 1, 1992), ISBN 978-0-5530-7573-1 Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town, Bantam (August 1, 1995), ISBN 978-0-5530-9501-2 Confessions of A Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, Putnam (February 10, 1997), ISBN 978-0-3991-4188-1 Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas, Bantam (January 4, 2000), ISBN 978-0-5530-9502-9 WITSEC: Inside The Federal Witness Protection Program, Bantam (January 29, 2002), ISBN 978-0-5538-0145-3 Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, Berkley (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, Putnam (January 24, 2008), ISBN 978-0-399-15439-3 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), ISBN 978-1-4391-9902-2 Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness by Jessie Close and Pete Earley, Grand Central Publishing, (January 13, 2015), ISBN 978-1-4555-3022-9 Fiction The Big Secret, Forge Books (June 1, 2004), ISBN 978-0-7653-0783-5 Lethal Secrets, Forge Books (June 1, 2005), ISBN 978-0-7653-0784-2 The Apocalypse Stone, Forge Books (June 13, 2006), ISBN 978-0-7653-1025-5 Duplicity: A Novel, Center Street Press (October 2015), co-author Newt Gingrich ISBN 978-1-4555-3042-7 Treason: A Novel, Center Street Press (October 2016), co-author Newt Gingrich ISBN 978-1455530441 Vengeance: A Novel, Center Street Press (October 10, 2017), co-author Newt Gingrich, ISBN 978-1478923046 Collusion: A Novel, Broadside Books (April 30, 2019), co-author Newt Gingrich, ISBN 978-0062859983 Shakedown: A Novel, Broadside Books (March 24, 2020), co-author Newt Gingrich, ISBN 978-0062860194 References External links Official website Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Pete Earley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Pete Earley books.

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    Prophet of Death

    Pete Earley

    A true account of the crimes of "prophet" Jeffrey Lundgren describes how the fanatical preacher used his hypnotic oratory and his twisted interpretations of religious texts to just...

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    Family of Spies

    Pete Earley

    For two decades John Walker, Jr. fed secrets absolutely crucial to America's national security to the KGB. Incredibly, for two decades, his treason remained undetected.  Pete ...

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    Confessions of a Spy

    Pete Earley

    "There are things that have never come out about this case. There are still secrets that only a few know." Aldrich Ames For nine years, Aldrich Ames fed highly classified informat...

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    Circumstantial Evidence

    Pete Earley

    Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prisonthe federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas – a book that Kirkus R...

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    The Serial Killer Whisperer

    Pete Earley

    From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earleythe strange but true story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world’s m...