Jack Fair­weath­er is the author of the Cos­ta Book Award-win­ner The Vol­un­teer, a #1 inter­na­tion­al best­seller that’s been trans­lat­ed into 26 lan­guages and com­pared to Schindler’s List. He served as a cor­re­spon­dent for The Wash­ing­ton Post and The Dai­ly Tele­graph, where he was the paper’s Bagh­dad and Per­sian Gulf bureau chief.