A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite
The Atavist, July 2014
A desperate gambler, his family, and the largest improvised bomb in US history PREVIEW
The Defector
Businessweek, July 2014
The man fighting a personal war against North Korea, using only balloons PDF
The Rhino Racket
Businessweek, January 2014
The mysterious clan of burglars plundering the natural history museums of Europe PDF
The Profiteer
Businessweek, July 2013
A con man makes $38m by selling golf ball finders to Iraq – as bomb detectors PDF
Life at the Top
The New Yorker, February 2013
The world of Manhattan’s high-rise window cleaners PDF
Virgin Galactic
Wired UK, January 2013
Richard Branson’s struggle to leave Earth’s atmosphere PDF
Deception is Futile
Wired, January 2013
Building a lie detector that actually detects lies PDF
The Narco Tunnels of Nogales
Businessweek, August 2012
The relentless cartel smugglers undermining the streets of one Arizona town PDF
The Race to the Bottom of the Sea
Men’s Journal, March 2012
Graham Hawkes’ 25-year quest to make the deepest solo dive in history PDF
Nowhere to Run
Men’s Journal, September 2011
How Charlie Engle’s journey across the Sahara ended in Federal prison PDF
The Mystery of the Red Forest
Wired, May 2011
Is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone really a radioactive Eden? PDF
The Men from J.I.E.D.D.O.
Wired, August 2010
Inside the Pentagon’s $17bn battle against Improvised Explosive Devices PDF
The Inkjet Counterfeiter
Details, September 2009
How Albert Talton made $7m – using supplies from Staples PDF
Doc Paskowitz
Telegraph Magazine, July 2009
The patriarch of the First Family of Surfing explains his philosophy PDF
The CEO of Cocaine, Inc.
Details, May 2009
On the trail of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia – the Man With a Thousand Faces PDF
The Vidocq Society
Telegraph Magazine, November 2008
Cold cases over lunch with the crime-solving dining club PDF
Dean Kamen
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, October 2008
The inventor of the Segway makes his bid to save the world PDF
Joe Frazier
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, September 2008
Ali’s most implacable opponent looks back PDF
The Last Days of the Lipstick Killer
GQ, June 2008
The forgotten case of the United States’ longest-serving convict PDF
The Gangster Prince of Liberia
Details, November 2007
The criminal odyssey of Charles Taylor’s favourite son PDF
Fentanyl
Details, May 2007
The anatomy of a mysterious and lethal epidemic PDF
Tony Kaye
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, June 2007
The most self-destructive man in Hollywood repents PDF
The Liquidators of Chernobyl
Observer Magazine, March 2006
Seeking out the last forgotten heroes of the Soviet Union PDF
JT Leroy
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, July 2005
The improbable literary fraud on the cusp of exposure PDF
Al Green
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, June 2005
An audience with the elusive Bishop of Memphis PDF
Deep Springs
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, May 2005
The school with both cattle and quantum mechanics on the curriculum PDF
Crime Scene Cleaners
Independent on Sunday Review, June 2004
On call with the men for whom no job is too gruesome RTF
The Green River Killer
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, May 2004
The 20-year hunt for the country’s most prodigious murderer PDF
Ceca and Arkan
Observer Magazine, January 2004
The doomed lovers at the heart of Milosevic’s gangster state PDF
Hollywood Forever
Independent on Sunday Review, April 2003
Reinventing the funeral at the Disneyland of Death RTF
Philippe Petit
Observer Magazine, January 2003
Inside the Parisian lair of the legendary wire-walker RTF
Hell House
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, November 2002
The Texas church reclaiming the Devil’s holiday RTF
The Rocket Man
Independent on Sunday Review, October 2002
A former toothpaste technician builds his own space programme
Doctor Nick
Observer Magazine, September 2002
The twilight years of Elvis Presley’s personal physician RTF
The Lifeboat Men
Independent on Sunday Review, November 2001
Three months at work with Britain’s volunteer sea rescue service
Richard Branson
Independent on Sunday Review, July 2000
Inside the court of a troubled tycoon RTF