Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, national security editor of the Washington Post, and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times. After 37 years in journalism, he was chief investigator for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books, the most recent of which was Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish, written with his wife, Catherine Collins. He lives in Nova Scotia.