Brett Forrest

Brett Forrest writes about national security and investigative subjects for the Wall Street Journal . He was formerly a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine , where he wrote extensively about sports and crime and was a member of the editorial staff that won the 2017 National Magazine Award for general excellence. He co-directed the ESPN/ABC true-crime documentary, Pin Kings , which was nominated for an Emmy Award. Forrest is the author of The Big Fix , an international crime bestseller in...See more

Brett Forrest writes about national security and investigative subjects for the Wall Street Journal . He was formerly a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine , where he wrote extensively about sports and crime and was a member of the editorial staff that won the 2017 National Magazine Award for general excellence. He co-directed the ESPN/ABC true-crime documentary, Pin Kings , which was nominated for an Emmy Award. Forrest is the author of The Big Fix , an international crime bestseller in development as a feature film at FOX, and also Long Bomb . His crime and international-affairs articles have appeared regularly in periodicals including Vanity Fair , The Atlantic , National Geographic , the New York Times Magazine , Time , Wired , Fortune , Foreign Policy , and Playboy . For a decade, Forrest was stationed abroad, in Russia, Ukraine, and Brazil. He has reported from nearly 50 countries, and his articles have been syndicated in more than 30 languages. See less