Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a British author and journalist. He grew up in London in the 1970s and studied at Leeds University, where he also edited the student newspaper. Adam enjoyed a peripatetic career on a number of Fleet Street newspapers with assignments that ranged from seeking London's best dry Martini to investigating Nazi war criminals who found sanctuary in Britain.

In 1991, he decided to become a foreign correspondent and moved to Budapest to cover the aftermath of the collapse of Communism. He also spent much time in the former Yugoslavia, covering the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. In 1997, he moved to Paris to write a thriller, which eventually became The Budapest Protocol, then returned to Budapest. Over the years, he has worked in more than 30 countries and enjoyed some hair raising adventures along the way. Currently< Adam writes for The Economist, The Times (of London), Monocle, Traveler and many others and reviews books for The New York Times and The Financial Times. He also teaches journalism at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.

Adam has written eight non-fiction books and two novels, which have been published in twelve languages including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Hungarian. These include the ground-breaking Hitler's Secret Bankers, which exposed Swiss economic complicity with Nazi Germany and which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; a biography of Slobodan Milosevic, now regarded as the standard work on his life and City of Oranges, which recounts the lives of Arab and Jewish families in Jaffa, and which was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize.

The Geneva Option, the first in a series of thrillers featuring Yael Azoulay, is published by Telegram in Britain and HarperCollins in the US. Tower of Basel, an investigative history of the Bank for International Settlements, the world's most secretive and influential financial institution, was published in the US and Britain in June 2014 by Public Affairs.