Lawrence Malkin, a prize-win­ning for­eign cor­re­spon­dent for Time mag­a­zine and The Inter­na­tion­al Her­ald Tri­bune, first report­ed from Jerusalem dur­ing the Six-Day War, where he met his co-author. He is the co-author of Danc­ing With Mad­men: The Wall Street Nov­el and author of The Nation­al Debt and Krueger’s Men, which was trans­lat­ed into nine lan­guages and inspired the Oscar-win­ning film The Coun­ter­feit­ers.