Len Bracken is a former international trade reporter for a major news agency—where he had an 18-year career—and the author of numerous books. He is best known for his 1992 erotic novel set in Berlin during the fall of the wall, inspired by his relationship with a woman from the German Democratic Republic, and for his 1997 biography of French revolutionary theorist Guy Debord, the first in any language. His book-length analysis of 9/11, published in 2002, advances a post-situationist theory of terrorism. Bracken’s most recent commercial book covers the early rise of red capitalism in China from 1979 to 2005. As a Russian speaker living in Moscow in his late teens, he was targeted by the KGB in a gruesome operation that resulted in a casualty. Bracken’s full biography is located here, his comprehensive bibliography here and his life chronology here.