The Inkjet Counterfeiter
Details, September 2009
How Albert Talton made $7m – using supplies from Staples    PDF

Doc Paskowitz
The Telegraph Magazine, July 2009
The patriarch of the First Family of Surfing explains his philosophy   PDF

The Vidocq Society
The Telegraph Magazine, November 2008
Cold cases over lunch with the crime-solving dining club   PDF

Dean Kamen
The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, October 2008
The inventor of the Segway makes his bid to save the world    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