Len Bracken

Len Bracken is an American novelist and theorist whose work explores the intersections of desire, power and history in the decades between the end of the Cold War and the rise of the surveillance state.

He is the author of several novels that trace the moral fault lines of Europe and America from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. His fiction blends erotic realism, espionage insight and philosophical clarity. It is shaped by years spent behind the Iron Curtain and sustained study of several languages.

Bracken’s nonfiction includes Guy Debord–Revolutionary, Shadow Government: 9–11 and State Terror, The Arch Conspirator and New China Syndrome: The Early Rise of Red Capitalism 1979–2005. His work draws on political theory, situationist thought and firsthand experience as a reporter covering international trade and economic policy from Washington, D.C.