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Adam LeBor is an author and journalist based in Budapest. He has written six critically-acclaimed non-fiction works including the best- selling HITLER’S SECRET BANKERS, an investigation into Swiss complicity with the Third Reich, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and CITY OF ORANGES, the story of Arab and Jewish families in Jaffa, which was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize.

His most recent non-fiction work, THE BELIEVERS, an investigation into the Madoff fraud, focusing on the psychology and sociology of the $65 billion scam, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.  His first novel, THE BUDAPEST PROTOCOL, a conspiracy thriller inspired by wartime US intelligence documents, was published this year to great reviews. Foreign rights to his books have been sold in fourteen countries including America, Japan, France, Spain, Israel, Poland, Hungary and Indonesia.

He writes regularly for The Times, The Sunday Times and Monocle magazine and reviews books for The Sunday Times, the Economist, the New York Times and the Jewish Chronicle. He has appeared at the Edinburgh and Bath literary festivals, Jewish Book Week and the Montreal literary festival.