A Playboy.com Exclusive: Investigative Journalist Peter Lance Reveals the Inside...

A Playboy.com Exclusive: Investigative Journalist Peter Lance Reveals the
Inside Story of His Battle With Patrick Fitzgerald

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In Playboy.com's "The Chilling Effect,"
investigative journalist Peter Lance exclusively discusses how his book,
Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets,
and the FBI, drew the ire of Patrick Fitzgerald, the most formidable
prosecutor in the United States, and how Fitzgerald tried to kill the
paperback edition.

The book (Harper; Trade Paperback; On sale: June 16, 2009; $16.99) uncovers
the story of how Ali Mohamed, a master spy for Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda
terrorist network, managed to infiltrate the deepest levels of the U.S.
intelligence community in the years leading up to the 9/11 attacks - and how
the FBI's elite bin Laden squad failed to stop him. In this expanded paperback
edition, Lance updates his groundbreaking investigation and details how
Fitzgerald succeeded in holding up the publication of the paperback edition
for more than 20 months.

"The book he [Fitzgerald] wants to kill documents for the first time the
mistakes he and others made from 1996 forward as Osama bin Laden plotted his
attack on the U.S.," states Lance, a five-time Emmy Award-winning
investigative reporter and former correspondent for ABC News. "In short, the
SDNY [Southern District of New York] had more than five years prior warning of
Ramzi Yousef's hijacking scenario."

Lance's Playboy.com article can be read in its entirety at
www.playboy.com/peterlance.

He is also the author of 1000 Years for Revenge, Cover Up, and the novel First
Degree Burn.

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