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Christopher Whitcomb

Biography

Christopher Whitcomb

Christopher Whitcomb is a writer, entrepreneur and former FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper with operational experience in more than 30 countries. He is the bestselling author of COLD ZERO: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and BROKEN PLEA: The Explosive Search for Truth Behind the Idaho Murders, the novels BLACK and WHITE, and the memoir ANONYMOUS MALE: A Life Among Spies. He has written for numerous outlets, including The New York Times, GQ, Netflix, CBS Films and HBO.

Christopher Whitcomb

Books by Christopher Whitcomb

by Christopher Whitcomb - Nonfiction, True Crime

Was there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In the aftermath of Bryan Kohberger's request to withdraw his guilty plea, there are more questions than ever before. In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four lives were lost in a brutal crime in Moscow, Idaho. When a suspect accepted a plea bargain, the story seemed settled. Justice, many believed, had been served. BROKEN PLEA prophetically challenges that assumption. Drawing on court records, investigative timelines, witness statements and apparently overlooked inconsistencies, this meticulously researched exposé examines how a rush to judgment may have shaped one of the most closely watched murder cases in recent memory.

by Christopher Whitcomb - Memoir, Nonfiction

In September 2001, Christopher Whitcomb was the most visible FBI agent in the world. His bestselling memoir, COLD ZERO, had led to novels, articles in GQ, and op-eds in The New York Times. Then one day in 2006, without warning, Whitcomb flew into Somalia and dropped off the face of the earth. For 15 years, he waged a mercenary war on himself, traveling the world with aliases, cash and guns. He built a private army in the jungles of Timor-Leste, working contracts for intelligence agencies, where he survived a coup d’état only to lose his friends, abandon his family, and give up on God. While surfing the wilds of Indonesia, Whitcomb found himself trapped beneath a giant wave, where he came to terms with the chaos of his own clandestine life. He survived the wave to find his way home and rebuild the world that he had abandoned.