Mark Curtis is a former Research Fellow of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and ex Head of Policy at Christian Aid. He is the author of four previous books, The Ambiguities of Power, The Great Deception and Trade for Life and Web of Deceit.
Mark Curtis is, in my opinion, this country's best popular historian -- John Pilger Curtis is a brave recorder of truths which the powerful would rather not have told -- Victoria Brittain, former foreign editor at The Guardian