Josh Meyer is the chief terrorism reporter for theLos Angeles Timesand has reported on international terrorism for more than a decade�. His "Inside Al Qaeda" series was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and he has twice been part of teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize for their security reporting. Meyer is also a screenwriter and television producer, who co-created (with Michael Connelly), wrote, and produced the network TV crime dramaLevel 9. He currently is on the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism, where he is director of education and outreach for the school's groundbreaking National Security Journalism Initiative based in Washington, D.C. Terry McDermott is the author… ofPerfect Soldiers(HarperCollins, 2005), and101 Theory Drive(Pantheon, 2010). His work has appeared inThe New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Columbia Journalism Review, theLos Angeles Times MagazineandPacific Magazine. McDermott worked at eight newspapers for more than thirty years, most recently for ten years at theLos Angeles Times, where he was a national correspondent.