Len Bracken is a former international trade reporter for a major news agency, where he had an eighteen-year career, and the avant-garde author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. His work includes the first erotic novel set during the fall of the Berlin Wall (1992), the first biography of French revolutionary theorist Guy Debord (1997) and the first general theory of civil war (1999).

 His book-length analysis of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, published in 2002, was the first U.S.-authored work to argue that the attacks constituted an inside job, while at the same time advancing a post-situationist theory of terrorism. In 2003, he published the first synthesis of classical hedonism and modern dialectics in his theory of dialectical hedonism. He also published, in 2006, the first major essay analyzing the early rise of capitalist markets in socialist China and their environmental and social costs, later expanded into a book-length study in 2019.

 Bracken’s work has been covered or mentioned by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Le Monde, The Village Voice, Washington City Paper and The New Yorker. His full biography is located here, and his comprehensive bibliography here.