Douglas Valentine

"Doug Valentine belongs to that precious remnant of journalists and historians with the wisdom to see our time, the integrity and courage to write about it, and the literary grace to bring it all chillingly alive. This indispensable book may quite well be the best yet in the author's already singular body of work. He takes us again into that dark inner reality of policy and politics that Americans so tragically deny and evade, and gives us back a reflection there is no denying, no escaping. If there is hope for America at this moment of so many reckonings, it is out of pages like these." Roger Morris

I am an author, investigator, consultant and poet. I live in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

My published works to date include:

The Hotel Tacloban, a highly praised account of my father's experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in World War II.

The Phoenix Program, which Professor Alfred W. McCoy describes as "the definitive account" of the CIA's most secret and deadly covert operation of the Vietnam War.

TDY, an action/​suspence novel that tells the story of one man's journey from innocence to awareness in the jungles of Laos.

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, published by Verso in May 2004. Strength of the Wolf received the Choice Academic Excellence Award and was published in Russian online.

The Strength of the Pack: The Politics, Personalities and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA, published TrineDay in October 2009. Peter Dale Scott describes Strength of the Pack as "an indispensible resource for those who wish to understand the politics of drug enforcement in America; and for those with any sense of the subject’s real importance it is a gripping read as well."

The Hotel Tacloban and The Phoenix Program are available through iUniverse.com as backinprint books under the Authors Guild imprint.

TDY is also available through iUniverse.com.

See my Books page for ordering information.

The Douglas Valentine Vietnam Collection at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, has been open and used by researchers since early 2007. The Collection contains the research material, including original handwritten interview notes and government documents obtained through FOIA requests, for my book The Phoenix Program. The Collection can only be used in the National Security Archive's Reading Room; it is not available for interlibrary loan and an appointment must be made to use it. The "resguide" link below will help anyone who wants to read the material.