1000 Years For Revenge: The inside story of the terrorist who designed the 9/11 plot and the two American heroes who tried to stop him.
By Peter Lance 9.11.26 Chapter One BLACK TUESDAY On the morning of September 11, 2001, the greatest would-be mass murderer since Adolf Hitler was locked down in solitary confinement in a Colorado prison. In a seven-by-twelve-foot cell at the Supermax, the most secure of all federal jails,…
23 years ago Dan Rather reported from Iraq on “1000 Years for Revenge” the first book in my HarperCollins trilogy on FBI intelligence failures on the road to 9/11
Sept. 11th, 2026 Twenty Three years ago, on the anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse – the eve of publication of my first investigative book for HarperCollins, 1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and The FBI, Dan Rather reported from Iraq on two…
In 1966 billionairess Doris Duke killed gay war hero, designer and art curator Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her estate and got away with murder. Now, despite overwhelming evidence of her guilt, the Newport, RI Police still won’t acknowledge the truth
By Peter Lance Sept. 11th, 2026 In the fall of 2018, I returned to my hometown of Newport, RI, to investigate an historic true crime legend: whether or not Doris Duke, the richest woman in America in 1966, had escaped criminal charges in a cover up by…
Salon.com publishes The Intro to my HarperCollins FBI/Mafia exposé DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
It’s not just Whitey Bulger: Meet another Mafia killer aided for decades by the FBI The Colombo family killer stopped counting after 50 murders. A deal with the feds helped him get away with it all By Peter Lance originally published June 30th 2013. LISTEN TO THE…
With President Trump’s order to release files on JFK’s death, consider my 1983 ABC NEWS report on public concerns back then that The Feds were hiding the truth
By Peter Lance March 18th 2025 ABC News reports that Trump’s promise to release thousands of declassified pages on the JFK assassination had sent the DOJ’s National Security Division into a “scramble.” Trump’s revelation Monday came weeks after the NYT reported that, “President Trump told security agencies…
MIAMI VICE, CRIME STORY & WISEGUY
If you’re hungry to watch some of the great police series from the late 80’s + 90’s, find a full list of my writing & producing credits on IMDB.com Then go to the following links to screen some of the episodes I wrote. My first script ever was “Top…
Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time
September 11th, 2026 “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. Also, while they…
Peter Lance Biography
September 11th, 2026 Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters…
HuffPost: DOJ report on MISSBURN case leaves out key detail: I.D. of the Mafia killer who broke the case for Hoover’s FBI
By Peter Lance June 27th, 2016. The Huffington Post: The NYT reported June 20th that a U.S. Justice Dept. inquiry into the notorious…
TRIPLE CROSS ambush interview. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. Peter Lance on The O’Reilly Factor.
By Peter Lance July 21st, 2016 © The Huffington Post: On…
WISEGUY: Season Four. The Steven Bauer Miami arc starring Maximilian Schell
By Peter Lance. April 15th, 2026. In 1990 I became The Show runner on the 4th Season of the acclaimed CBS…
On Halloween in 1994 CBS aired a new take on Orson Welles’ radio classic “War of The Worlds.” With 225,000+ views, it’s now become a YouTube cult favorite as well.
By Peter Lance. October 31st, 2025 On Halloween night, 1994, CBS aired WITHOUT WARNING; a contemporary take on H.G. Wells classic “War…
How Ronnie Bucca exposed an al Qaeda mole in the FDNY
1000 Years for Revenge: A Conversation With Peter Lance by Claire E. White Could the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been prevented? Absolutely,…
MISSING PERSONS: LONG LOST ABC PILOT JUST DISCOVERED
Sept. 15th 2024 “Missing Persons” was a pilot for the ABC Television Network created and Executive Produced by Peter Lance in…
HuffPost: Al Qaeda & the mob. Why The FBI Blew it on 9/11
By Peter Lance THE HUFFINGTON POST After whacking “Big Paul” Castellano and…
NY Magazine on a former U.S. Attorney’s campaign to bury “Triple Cross.”
PROSECUTOR AS BOOK PUBLICIST By Boris Katchka. Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Illinois’s Northern District, doesn’t pull his punches. Charming, tough,…
Murder, Inc. the true crime classic. Republished with a new Foreword by Peter Lance
FOREWARD to the new edition By Peter Lance I was first introduced to Murder Inc., by Nick Pileggi, the extraordinary journalist,…
30 years ago al Qaeda’s World Trade Center bombing was the precursor to the 9/11 Attacks.
BY PETER LANCE February 26th, 2023, the 30th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured a…
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