About the Author

Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo are correspondents for Rome's "La Repubblica" newspaper. Their work for "La Repubblica" is distributed in English translation by the BBC Worldwide Monitoring Service.
Before joining "La Repubblica," Bonini and d'Avanzo worked together at the "Correre della Sera" newspaper, where they reported extensively about Russia. Their reporting about corruption in the administration of Boris Yeltsin is widely credited with helping force Yeltsin's resignation.
Since 9-11, Bonini and d'Avanzo have broken many important stories about the war on terror. Bonini is the author of a book about the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, and his reporting with d'Avanzo about the Italian military intelligence agency, SISMI, helped land agency chief Marco Mancini in jail. It was recently disclosed that the Italian intelligence agency has extensive files on both Bonini and d'Avanzo.

Reviews

"Bonini and D'Avanzo are the Woodward and Bernstein of Italian journalism. They, morethan any other reporters, penetrated the Iraqi uranium fraud--one of the great, and most consequential, scams of our time."
--Michael Isikoff, author of "Hubris"

"These two reporters, author of this book, are truth seekers who do the kind of hard, honest work that all reporters should do--find the truth and print it."
--Seymour Hersh, author of" Chain of Command"

"Probes the most enigmatic questions at the heart of the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in American history."
-- Craig Unger, author of" House of Bush, House of Saud"