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

"The Strength of the Pack is 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." Peter Dale Scott

I am an author, investigator, consultant and poet. I live with my wife Alice in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. My philosophy of life is based in classical mythology and a true love of nature. That's me :-)

My published works to date include:

1) my first book, The Hotel Tacloban, a highly praised account of his father's extraordinary experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp;

2) my second book, 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;

3) my third book, TDY, an action/​suspence novel that tells the story of one young man's journey from innocence to awareness.

4) and The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, published by Verso in May 2004. Strength has received the Choice Academic Excellence Award and will be published in Russia this year.

My fifth book, The Strength of the Pack: The Politics, Personalities and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA, was published by the TrineDay in October 2009.

The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, and TDY are available through iUniverse.com.

The Hotel Tacloban (originally published by Lawrence Hill & Company in 1984) and The Phoenix Program (originally published by the William Morrow Company in 1990) are available through iUniverse.com as backinprint books under the Authors Guild imprint.

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.