Mark Cowan

Mark Cowan is a journalist with over two decades’ experience in newspapers and television. He spent twelve years as a crime correspondent for tabloid, broadsheet and Sunday titles in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and was embedded with the British Army in war-torn Kosovo. He has worked on crime documentaries for the BBC and ITV, and is an experienced technical, cave and rebreather diver. To bring Robson’s dramatic story to the page, Cowan draws on hundreds of documents and dozens of interviews collected over five years of reporting, combined with unprecedented access to the people at the heart of this true life or death thriller. He lives in Chicago.