Adam Lebor

Adam Lebor is a British journalist and author mystery and thriller novels from London. He was brought up in 1970s London and went to college at Leeds where he was the editor of the student’s newspaper. He had a peripatetic career in several Fleet Street newspapers as he worked in a variety of stories from Nazi criminals that had escaped to London and the best Martini that London could offer. By 1991 he had graduated to become a foreign correspondent and in his new role shifted base to Budapest, where he started by reporting on the collapse of Communism. He also worked in Yugoslavia where he covered the wars in Bosnia and Croatia before he eventually decided to make a home in Paris from where he wrote his debut novel “The Budapest Protocol” in 2009. Over the years, his work has taken him to more than 30 countries across the globe from where he has had a variety of experiences. He now writes for Traveler, the Economist, Monocle, and The Times of London in addition to reviews for the Financial Times and the New York Times. He is also a tutor of Journalism at Budapest’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium.