Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author of "The Complex "and the research director for the Nation Institute s TomDispatch.com. His work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times", the "San Francisco Chronicle", and "The Nation". Turse s investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He lives near New York City.