Biography

Tony Camerino is a writer known for his work on all five seasons of the hit CBS drama Person of Interest, which won two People's Choice Awards. He also wrote on the network dramas A.P.B, Taken, and The Enemy Within, and developed original projects for Netflix (a Black Hawk Down adaptation and an Area 51 series), Amazon, and Fox. Camerino is developing a true-story Vietnam mini-series with Fremantle. His feature script Landslide (co-written with Will Staples), based on his military memoir How to Break a Terrorist, made the 2015 Blacklist and is also in development. He also authored Kill or Capture (St. Martin's Press) and won an Emmy for his writing on a documentary about JFK called Clouds Over Cuba.

Tony is a combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, and retired after 20 years of service in the Air Force and the Reserves. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot and was awarded an Aerial Achievement Medal for his accomplishments in the Balkan wars. He later served as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted criminal investigations and counterintelligence. As a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, he personally conducted or supervised over 1,300 interrogations. Tony was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements, including leading the interrogations that located Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the notorious Al Qaeda leader and father of ISIS, who was killed in a subsequent airstrike. Tony has trained U.S. Army interrogators, US Marshals, and foreign interrogators from 17 countries.
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