Craig Whitlock

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defence contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardised our nation’s security. All the admirals in the US Navy knew Leonard Glenn Francis—either personally...

A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US...