David Rose, who now writes for the Observer and Vanity Fair, has worked at Time Out, the Guardian and BBC television, and has investigated wrongful convictions since the early 1980s. A Climate of Fear was described as ‘the best account of a miscarriage of justice written yet’. His other books include In the Name of the Law, Regions of the Heart and Guantanamo: America’s War on Human Rights. He is a past winner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs David Watt Memorial Prize, the Bar Council’s Legal Reporter of the Year Award and the One World-European Union award for human rights journalism.
