Douglas Valentine

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, has received the Choice Academic Excellence Award, and will be published in Russia in November 2005. Click to see catalogue.

Doug Valentine is an author, investigator, consultant and poet. He lives with his wife Alice (and their cat Shora) in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

His philosophy of life is based in classical mythology and a true love of nature. He believes that love is the answer, and that all our problems can be solved non-violently, and by learning to trust one another.

Doug's published works to date include:

1) his first book, The Hotel Tacloban, a highly praised account of his father's extraordinary experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp;

2) his second book, The Phoenix Program, which Professor Alfred W. McCoy describes as "the definitive account" of the CIA's most secret and deadly covert operation of the Vietnam War;

3) his third book, TDY, an action/suspence novel that tells the story of one young man's journey from innocence to awareness.

4) and The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, published by Verso in May 2004. Strength has received the Choice Academic Excellence Award and will be published in Russia this year.

Doug's fifth book, The Strength of the Pack: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, Part II, will be published by the University Press of Kansas in December 2005.

The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, and TDY are available through iUniverse.com.

The Hotel Tacloban (originally published by Lawrence Hill & Company in 1984) and The Phoenix Program (originally published by the William Morrow Company in 1990) are available through iUniverse.com as backinprint books under the Authors Guild imprint.