Thomas Hard­ing is a best­selling author whose books have been trans­lat­ed into more than 16 lan­guages. He has writ­ten for The Sun­day Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and The Guardian, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He is the best­selling author of Hanns and Rudolf, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fic­tion; The House by the Lake, which was short­list­ed for the Cos­ta Biog­ra­phy Award; Blood on the Page, which won the Crime Writ­ers’ Asso­ci­a­tion Gold­en Dag­ger Award for Non-Fic­tion; and most recent­ly, White Debt. Harding’s pre­vi­ous books have been Sun­day Times best­sellers, prize-win­ning pub­li­ca­tions and praised by authors includ­ing John le Car­ré, Ben Mac­in­tyre, and Max Hastings.