 by Jessica Zimmerman 
ABOUT GORDON THOMAS
Gordon Thomas is the author of over forty books with total sales exceeding 50 million copies. Several of his titles were Main Selections for the US Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Several of his books are major motion pictures, including the three times Academy Award nominated Voyage of the Damned and Enola Gay, which won the Emmy Awards Foreign Critics Prize. Experiences won the Jury's and Critics prizes at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. He holds an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Shipwreck. In April 2006, he received the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism.
He has written extensively on all aspects of the work of the global intelligence community for over thirty-five years. In recent times he has focused on how the community combats terrorism in an increasingly unstable world, and its role in countering drug trafficking and economic espionage. He is a strong advocate for the role of the traditional spy as a complement to the satellites and other exotic systems now in wide use.
Gordon's Gideon's Spies: The Secret History Of The Mossad became a major documentary, which he wrote and narrated for Britain's Channel-4 and was later shown worldwide. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad's key personnel. The book has been published internationally.
Gordon's screenplay, Underpass, which received the Best Adaptation prize at the 1998 Mipcom Film Festival at Cannes, is currently slated to be released as a feature film that deals with the intelligence mystery around the death of Princess Diana.
Gordon Thomas writes on intelligence matters for G2 Bulletin (the Internet's leading intelligence newsletter); Epoch Times (global); Facta (Japan); Welt Am Sonntag and Bild (Germany); Wprost (Poland); Daily Telegraph (Australia); and El Espectador (Colombia). He has been a regular broadcaster on current affairs for the BBC and US networks and has lectured widely on the intelligence world.
For more information or to purchase this book, click on the title: Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6
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