•  Patrick Burns

 Patrick Burns – is a former U.S. Marine, a retired U. S. Special Agent and a writer. He’s investigated criminals and terrorists throughout the world, including leading an anti-terrorist unit in Iraq while embedded with the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He’s the author of The Coin Store: A True Story of Drug Cartels, Mobsters, Cops and Agents, an amazing story about an ingenious billion-dollar worldwide money laundering scheme that swapped stolen mob gold for Pablo Escobar’s dirty cash.

•  Amy Knight

Earned her PhD degree in Russian politics at the London School of Economics where she has taught as well as stints teaching at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and Carleton University in Canada and worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a Soviet/Russian affairs specialist.

In 1993-94 Amy Knight is the author of six books: The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union; Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant; Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB’s Successors ; Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin’s Greatest Mystery ; and How the Cold War Began: Amy Knight’s latest book is ORDERS TO KILL: The Putin Regime and Political Murder and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Fox News, Al Jazeera, C-Span