Larry Kolb

Career

As Kolb recounts in Overworld, his father was a highly placed United States. intelligence official, and Kolb grew up in various places around the world, following his father"s assignments. Kolb resisted various efforts at recruitment by official intelligence agencies until he was recruited by Copeland. Upon the publication of Overworld, Kolb was again recruited, this time by the Department of Homeland Security, to help investigate two white collar criminals with connections to the Central Intelligence Agency. Kolb"s investigation of Robert Sensi and Richard Hirschfeld led him to discover and foil a conspiracy to smear the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign with false links to First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda.

This became the subject of his 2007 book America at Night, which was reviewed by the New York Times on January 25, Kolb, who was born in Virginia, currently lives in Florida.

Achievements

• Prior to his career as an author, Kolb, by his own account, worked as a close advisor to Muhammad Ali and Adnan Khashoggi and as a spy with Central Intelligence Agency co-founder Miles Copeland, Junior., with whom he was involved in intrigues in Pakistan, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, until Kolb was forced to retire to a safehouse in Florida to avoid extradition to India.