Bio: A. Craig Copetas is a senior writer for Bloomberg News. His other books are Bear Hunting with the Politburo and Metal Men, on pardoned financier Marc Rich. Copetas has worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal; a corrspondent for Rolling Stone's London bureau; an editor at Esquire: Moscow correspondent for Regardie's magazine and the Village Voice; and a contributing writer to Harper's and The New York Times. He's lived and worked in Russia, China, Great Britain, Latin America, and the Middle East, and now lives in Paris.