Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterrorism Force, the NYPD

Award-winning author Christopher Dickey, whose most recent book Securing the City will be published in February 2009, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. Previously he worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Chris’s Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. For links to recent columns and articles, visit the archive.

Chris’s books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (Simon & Schuster, 1986); Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990); Innocent Blood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster, 1998). His most recent novel, The Sleeper, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2004. The New York Times called it “a first-rate thriller.” The Sleeper is now available directly from Simon and Schuster as an e-book.

He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic, among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, as well as other television and radio networks.

Chris is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was formerly an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow; of the Overseas Press Club of America; and of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris.

Dina Temple-Raston is a national security correspondent for NPR News. Her reporting can be heard on NPR’s newsmagazines. She joined NPR as the FBI correspondent in March 2007 fresh from a two year sabbatical in which she completed two books, learned Arabic, and received a Master’s Degree from Columbia.

A long-time foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia, Temple-Raston opened Bloomberg’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices working for both Bloomberg’s financial wire and radio operations. She also served as Bloomberg News’ White House correspondent during both Clinton administrations and covered financial markets and economics for both USA Today and CNN.

Temple-Raston is an award-winning author. Her first book, on race in America entitled A Death in Texas, won the Barnes’ and Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2002. Her second book, on the role Radio Mille Collines played in fomenting the Rwandan genocide, was a Foreign Affairs magazine bestseller. She has two books related to civil liberties and national security. The first, In Defense of Our America (HarperCollins) written with Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, looks at civil liberties in post-9/11 America. The other, The Jihad Next Door (Public Affairs) is about the Lackawanna Six, America’s first so-called “sleeper cell.”