WEEKEND FREEBIE: Stream a sample of the new Outlaws Inc. audiobook
Thanks to the lovely people at Audible.com in the States, you can stream an extract of the new Outlaws Inc. audiobook here, for a limited period. The book is read – which, I suppose means I’m played – by Jeff Kafer, a Seattle-born voice actor and veteran narrator and voiceover artist. And he…
Video: “Cocaine coffee tables?!” CNN bosses, the craziest cop in Brazil, and me
It started perfectly innocently. I was out with a friend on Thursday, and the phone rang. I didn’t pick up – it was ten o’clock, and I’d worked my way through six large glasses of what I remember being an increasingly smooth Italian red, and a couple of bottles of Grolsch for good measure.…
Video: Matt on Fox News Live
During last week’s promotional visit to the USA, I appeared as a guest on Fox News Live. On arriving, you tend to think Fox News studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan is an imposing piece of work… but then you meet the presenters. I’ll be posting it as an iPod-friendly MP4 for…
Report: Smuggling, security & the power of cheap – speaking at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs
On 22nd September, I was honoured to be invited to discuss the links between big business, mercenary airmen and terrorist groups at a special event presented by the Transnational Security Committee of NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. The conversation that followed, moderated by CGA Academic Chair Dr Mark Galeotti, took in the disintegrating Soviet Union,…
Analysis: Chewbacca, Kurt Cobain & cheap thrills, or life in a post-Soviet West
What if…? is a popular parlour game among historians. How would the world look had World War Two ended differently? What would a Confederate-won Civil War have meant in a parallel 21st-century USA? What if the DDR’s army hadn’t wavered, and the Berlin Wall had never fallen? This week brought a chance to play…
News: Outlaws Inc is out in the USA, & the first (great) reviews are coming in…
Good morning America! Just a quick update on the eve of my US publication date to thank the American media for the great response so far, and especially the quality papers for reviews like this one from the Baltimore Sun calling Outlaws Inc. “a nonfiction tale more suspenseful and compelling than any espionage novel” and…
First preview of Outlaws Inc. hits US newsstands!
The first preview of Outlaws Inc. hit the stands this week courtesy of Libraries Journal. And here it is! Outlaws Inc.: Under the Radar and on the Black Market with the World’s Most Dangerous Smugglers. Bloomsbury, dist. by Macmillan. Aug. 2011. 288p. ISBN 9781608195305. $25. When communism collapses, some Russian military men get together and…
New Bloomsbury USA catalogue showcases Outlaws Inc
The new 2011 Catalogue from Bloomsbury USA showcases Outlaws Inc.
US edition of Outlaws Inc finalised
The American cover of Outlaws Inc was unveiled on Amazon today…