Barry Lando

"Deep Strike" is a tale of Russian hackers, rogue CIA agents and a deranged American president. It was the result of wondering "what it" a small group of CIA agents, outraged by the election of a new American president, despite the evidence they had produced of Russian hacking, what if they decided to take action to drive that president from office. During the six months I spent writing it, the reality of U.S. politics turned out to be as outrageous as the plot I had concocted. And the story is far from over. My previous novel, "The Watchman's File," was about the attempt of an investigative reporter to uncover Israel's most closely-guarded secret. (It wasn't the bomb.)

I'm a Canadian, born in the great city of Vancouver, B.C., a graduate of Harvard and Columbia University. I went to work as a correspondent for Time-Life in Brazil, then spent 25 years as an investigative producer with 60 Minutes. I was based first in Washington, D.C., as Watergate filled the headlines, then moved to Paris in 1979, from where I covered the world, working mainly with Mike Wallace. I was honored with several awards for some of those broadcasts.

Since leaving 60 Minutes in 1997, I first took off a year to travel around the Pacific with my French wife and our 6 year old son, then returned to Paris and continued to comment on current affairs. I produced a documentary about Saddam Hussein. The thesis was that several past and present leaders of the Western World--including the U.S--should have been put on trial with Saddam, since they were complicit with many of his crimes. The documentary was shown around the world--but not in the United States.

That documentary became a book, "Web of Deceit, The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill, to Kennedy to George W. Bush."

Over the past few years I have also blogged on international affairs, particularly the Middle East, for the Huffington Post, Counterpunch, and several other sites, including my own blog, http://barrymlando.com

I currently live in London with my wife, Elisabeth. Our son, Edward, is involved in high-tech start-ups in the U.S. My elder son Jeffery is movie director, living with his wife, Rachel, and two children--Ethan and Hannah-- in Vancouver; my daughter, Dominique is a therapist living in Berkley. She is married to Brian Mallis and has a daughter, Juniper.