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Media: London King, Simon & Schuster, 212-698-7250.
Rights: Sloan Harris, International Creative Management, 212-556-5721. Mark Riebling directs the Book Program at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He is also a co-founder and the former research director of the Center for Tactical Counterterrorism (now known as the Center for Policing Terrorism. Independently of his work for the Institute and the Center, he writes on national security, military, and cultural affairs. He is the author of Wedge: How the Secret War between the CIA and FBI Has Endangered National Security. First published in hardcover in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf, Wedge has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Czech, and was optioned by Martin Brest for Universal Pictures. In 2002 Wedge was reissued by Simon and Schuster, with an updated Epilogue, bringing the story forward through 9/11. He is also the author of two other forthcoming nonfiction books: Soldier Spies: The Secret History of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Rise of Pentagon Espionage Empire (Knopf), and Vatican Assassins: The Pope, the Jesuits, and the Plot to Kill Hitler (HarperCollins). Mark Riebling has contributed articles to The Guardian (London), The International Herald Tribune, National Review, Inside the Vatican, City Journal, Grand Royal, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has been interviewed on CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn, CBS News, CNBC Capitol Report, MSNBC, the ABC Radio News Network, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Mitch Albom Show, and Fox News (The Morning Show, The Big Story with John Gibson, and War Stories with Oliver North). As a guest analyst and commentator, he has appeared frequently on National Public Radio (Talk of the Nation with Neil Conan, To the Point with Warren Olney, The Diane Rhem Show and The Leonard Lopate Show). Before pursuing his own writing and research, he was a book editor at Random House. Among the authors with whom he worked closely were Jean-Francois Revel, John S.D. Eisenhower, William F. Buckley, James Michener, Neil Peart, Margaret Truman, Vassily Aksyonov, and Carl Sagan. Mark Riebling studied philosophy and comparative literature at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, passing with High Honors the doctoral examinations in Ethics, Political Theory, and Aesthetics. He attended Dartmouth College and the University of California at Berkeley, as a President's Fellow, and graduated from the latter magna cum laude, as a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, with a Minor in Rhetoric. He wrote his Senior Honors Thesis on Aristotle's Poetics. He grew up in La Canada-Flintridge, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, where he was educated in Catholic, public, and preparatory schools. [Home] |