Frank Viviano is the European Bureau chief of the "San Francisco Chronicle", based in Paris. As an overseas reporter, he has covered events ranging from the fall of Marcos in the Philippines & the Tiananmen Square crackdown in China, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, civil wars in Central America, Kosovo, Croatia & Bosnia, the criminal underworld in Italy, Eastern Europe, Russia & Germany. His articles have appeared in more than two hundred newspapers & magazines in the US, Europe & the Far East. He has written six previous non-fiction books. "Blood Washes Blood" is his first narrative non-fiction work & took him seven years to research & write.