Peter Lance(I)
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
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.
