Peter Maass
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Peter Maass, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, is the author of “Crude World: The Violent twilight of Oil” which was published in September by Alfred Knopf, Inc. “Crude World” is based on research in every major oil-producing country; Maass interviewed Saudi sheiks, Russian billionaires, Nigerian warlords, Venezuelan politicians, Texas wildcatters and many others. While investigating oil corruption in Equatorial Guinea, he was accused of being a spy and expelled. USA Today described Maass’ book as “in a class by itself, as he constructs his relentless indictment on a foundation of first-rate reporting and superb writing”. According to the Financial Times, “Maass…succeeds in portraying an energy crisis mostly ignored or misunderstood in the developed world.” Maass is also the author of “Love thy Neighbor: A Story of War,” a memoir of the Bosnian conflict that was published by Knopf in 1996 and won book prizes from The Overseas Press Club and the Los Angeles Times. In recent years, Maass has written lengthy stories for the NYT Magazine from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.