Peter Lance

Birthday: February 18, 1948 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Peter Lance is a 5 time Emmy-winning investigative reporter, screenwriter and novelist. With an M.S. from Columbia J School and a J.D. from Fordham Law School, Lance spent the first 15 years of his ca ...Show More

Peter Lance is a 5 time Emmy-winning investigative reporter, screenwriter and novelist. With an M.S. from Columbia J School and a J.D. from Fordham Law School, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter & network correspondent; starting at The Newport, R.I. Daily News, his hometown paper where he won the A.P.'s coveted Sevellon Brown Award. In New York Lance won 3 national news Emmys and two New York area Emmys for his work producing and reporting for WNET and ABC News. While in law school, Lance worked as a Trial Prep Asst. in the Manhattan D.A.'s office. In 1987, he took a break from journalism and began working as a writer & story editor on Crime Story and Miami Vice for NBC, ultimately becoming show runner on Wiseguy for CBS. He later co-created Missing Persons for ABC and served as a writer & producer on JAG (NBC) and The Sentinel (UPN). Lance's novel, First Degree Burn, was a national best seller. He adapted Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA for HBO and wrote Terror.net for Showtime. In 2001 Lance returned to reporting, probing the FBI's investigation of al Qaeda in the 12 years leading up to 9/11. Since 2002 he's written 3 non fiction best sellers for HarperCollins: 1000 Years for Revenge (2003) Cover Up (2004) and Triple Cross (2006). His 4th: "Deal With The Devil," an epic Mafia exposé, was published in 2013. Hide