PETER LANDESMAN (Writer) is a screenwriter, producer, award-winning investigative staff journalist for the New York Times Magazine and novelist. He has written scripts for Michael Mann, Cruise/Wagner, Oliver Stone, and the adaptation of 'Who Killed Daniel Pearl?' for Beacon Pictures. He is currently writing a movie about Watergate's Deep Throat, Mark Felt, for Universal and Tom Hanks. His investigative journalism, appearing regularly in the New York Times Magazine, includes cover stories on weapons trafficking, sex slavery and drug and refugee smuggling. He has also covered the war in Kosovo and post-9/11 Pakistan and Afghanistan for the NY Times Magazine, the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly. His April 2002 article on refugee smuggling and people trafficking for the New York Times Magazine, "Light at the end of the Chunnel," won the Overseas Press Club prize for best magazine reporting from abroad. His 2004 for article on sex trafficking, "The Girls Next Door", was cited by the Overseas Press Club for best international reporting on human rights issues. His first novel, 'The Raven', was awarded the best first fiction prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.