Former award-winning writers and foreign correspondents for The Sunday Times and then The Guardian, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott- Clark have also produced documentaries for HBO, PBS, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook, and VICE TV. In 2010, their film City of Fear, on Pakistan’s bloodiest year, was nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Their C4 documentary Torture Trail won the 2013 Amnesty International award, was shortlisted for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Pecks. Chinese Murder Mystery, an investigation into a Communist Party killer, was longlisted for a BAFTA and nominated for the Monte Carlo Television Awards. They produced episodes for the Emmy-winning Vice on HBO. Currently, they are producing a feature documentary, Forever Patient, directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, investigating C.I.A. enhanced interrogation. Their first book, The Stone of Heaven (2001), was a finalist in Borders New Voices competition. Their second, The Amber Room (2004), was a New York Times Book of the Year. Deception (2008) was a finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster’s medal for Military History. The Meadow, published by Penguin (2012), won the Ramnath Goenka Award. The Siege (2013), an account of 26/11, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Their sixth non-fiction book, The Exile (2017), is a kitchen sink drama of the bin Ladens.
