Douglas Farah

DOUGLAS FARAH is an American journalist, author, and national security consultant who served as West Africa bureau chief for The Washington Post from 2000 to 2003. His books include Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible and Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror.

Farah won the 1988 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence. He holds a B.A. in Latin American studies and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas and is president of IBI Consultants and a Senior Visiting Fellow at National Defense University’s Center for Complex Operations.

When not writing, Farah works as a national security consultant, drawing on decades of foreign correspondence across Central America, the Caribbean, and West Africa.

Douglas lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

Douglas Farah’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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