ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Don Whitehead was born in Inman, Virginia, and studied at the University of Kentucky. He has spent most of his working life in newspaper work, and for twenty-one years was with the Associated Press, twice winning Pulitzer prizes. For a time he was chief of the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1956 he wrote the widely acclaimed The F.B.I. Story, and in 1960 he wrote Journey into Crime. He now lives with his wife in Concord, Tennessee, where he writes a column for the Knoxville News-Sentinel and does freelance writing.