{"id":45,"date":"2026-03-25T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.110.86.41\/2\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:32:19","slug":"peter-lance-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Peter Lance Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Peter%20Lance%20Biography\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P.L.-pic.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19401\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Researching-DEAL-WITH-THE-DEVIL-MiAMI-2013-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Researching-DEAL-WITH-THE-DEVIL-MiAMI-2013-copy.png 720w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Researching-DEAL-WITH-THE-DEVIL-MiAMI-2013-copy-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">April 16th, 2026 <\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Peter Lance is <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=50\"><strong>a five-time Emmy-winning<\/strong><\/a> investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 20 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career as a reporter for his hometown paper, The Newport, R.I. Daily News. There, while a student at Northeastern University in Boston, he won the coveted Sevellon Brown Award from the A.P. News Executives Association. Lance next moved to WNET, the PBS flagship in New York, where he won his first New York area Emmy and the Ohio State Award as a producer- reporter for Channel 13&#8217;s news magazine THE 51ST STATE.<\/p>\n<p>Later, while working as a writer and producer for WABC-TV Lance won his second N.Y. Area Emmy along with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for WILLOWBROOK: THE PEOPLE VS. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, an expos\u00e9 on a notorious institution housing patients with intellectual disabilities on Staten Island. He was also awarded The National Community Service Emmy for that same documentary.<\/p>\n<p>While getting his law degree, Lance worked as a Trial Preparation Assistant in the office of the District Attorney for New York County. Moving to ABC News as a field producer, Lance won his fourth Emmy for \u201cArson and Profit,\u201d his undercover investigation of an arson ring in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19403\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2.jpg 1148w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WNT-1986-copy-2-800x549.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1981 Lance became Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. For his first investigative piece on 20\/20 Lance won his fifth Emmy for \u201cUnnecessary Surgery,\u201d an expos\u00e9 on unnecessary surgery in an Arkansas hospital. He won two more Emmy nominations in 1982 for 20\/20 investigative pieces on Formaldehyde : \u201cThe Danger Within\u201d and toxic waste: \u201cDeadly Chemicals, Deadly Oil;\u201d a piece that also won The National Headliner Award.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next five years he covered hundreds of stories worldwide for ABC NEWS 20\/20, NIGHTLINE, and WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXISJ8fYFqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a special two-part report for NIGHTLINE<\/strong><\/a> on the 20th anniversary of the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. Reporting from the Texas School Book Depository Building, Lance was one of the last reporters granted access to accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald&#8217;s alleged shooting position as he reportedly trained his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle down on the Presidential motorcade.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19402 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-8.34.38-PM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-8.34.38-PM-copy.jpg 888w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-8.34.38-PM-copy-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-8.34.38-PM-copy-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-8.34.38-PM-copy-800x591.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later, Lance was a member of the first American crew into Indochina after the end of the Vietnam War. He chased rebel insurgents through the Plaine Des Jarres in Laos and members of the Genovese Family through the toxic wastelands of New Jersey. He tracked knife-happy surgeons in the Deep South and nuclear terrorists through the twisted streets of Antwerp. Then, in 1987, he took a break from non-fiction.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19405 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-21-at-12.25.42-PM-copy-800x561.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lance came to L.A. and began working as a writer and story editor for Michael Mann on two of his acclaimed NBC series: <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=4584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CRIME STORY and MIAMI VICE<\/strong>.<\/a> \u2028In 1989 Lance became the co-executive producer and &#8220;show runner&#8221; on the fourth season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OQ8rPCnSdO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WISEGUY<\/strong> <\/a>for CBS and in 1993 he co-created MISSING PERSONS, for ABC. He later served as a writer and consulting producer on JAG (NBC).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.57.05-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.57.05-PM.jpg 374w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.57.05-PM-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/>In 1997 Lance&#8217;s first novel <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FIRST DEGREE BURN<\/strong><\/a> became a national best seller, ranking No. 24 on The Ingram A-List The Top 50 Requested Titles in Mystery- Detective Fiction. The film-noir mystery features FDNY Fire Marshal Eddie Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Later Lance adapted VEIL: THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA, Bob Woodward&#8217;s best-seller on William Casey for HBO. For Showtime he wrote TERROR.NET, the story of Bradley Smith, the courageous Diplomatic Security agent responsible for helping to apprehend the world&#8217;s most notorious terrorists. In the year 2000 Lance returned to investigative reporting with his best-selling non-fiction investigative biography: THE STINGRAY: Lethal Tactics of The Sole Survivor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9\/11 HARPERCOLLINS TRILOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the 9\/11 attacks Lance began investigating the origins of the FBI&#8217;s original probe of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. After visiting Yousef&#8217;s former bomb factory in the Philippines, he came away with 100&#8217;s of pages of classified documents proving that Yousef had set the 9\/11 plot into motion as early as 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Lance then went back and examined the FBI&#8217;s original efforts to stop Yousef in 1992 as he built the first WTC device. The result was his acclaimed investigative book from Harper Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1000-Years-Revenge-International-FBI\/dp\/0060597259\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DEVRPHP59XKT&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MXZFho8yf-RARAmJgpPQlmxOsZVz0mmf5h3ZHEq5S_irFO42YT2IeVZV4kK5rciTFR6nDQOUnizcYT2n6qw8vELWNvZgXUDW-8OL7HMBTfHEze5ZQQlb3BUaKJnN47uB-P6TC3_RwN8r5QV8SjbuPkMAjWqW2Ux8iI9NqHCwS_0CIwV68BP8RnEAV_rN9cdDrgHU_lq1qpn5MhQpJhpDsD8x7Mm7799BGLz3zHSA0zg.F9a-8wqhB44Bx9wTcXVh6CbjVEJttGjBpECKR4tZib8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=%22Peter+Lance%22&amp;qid=1721325512&amp;sprefix=peter+lance+%2Caps%2C129&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lance followed that book with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cover-Up-Government-Hiding-Terror-ebook\/dp\/B000UMVN1I\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>COVER UP<\/strong><\/a> in 2004. In it he established evidence that federal officials entered into an \u201cends\/means\u201d decision in 1996 that buried a treasure trove of al Qaeda-related intelligence in order to preserve a series of Mafia-related cases in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn).<\/p>\n<p>Lance presented probative evidence in the book that a senior Organized Crime Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI\u2019s New York Office (NYO) was in a corrupt relationship with a Colombo Family killer. It was the FBI\u2019s desire to prevent that potential scandal from tanking the mob cases, that led, Lance determined, to the suppression of key al Qaeda-related evidence that, if acted upon, could have prevented the attacks of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9.11-trilogy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1567\" title=\"9.11 trilogy\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9.11-trilogy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9.11-trilogy.png 806w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9.11-trilogy-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9.11-trilogy-800x381.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year after COVER UP\u2019s publication the Brooklyn D.A. commenced a grand jury investigation inspired, in part, by Lance\u2019s revelations about Supervisory Special Agent: R. Lindley DeVecchio. On March 30th, 2006 DeVecchio was indicted on four counts of second degree murder stemming from that D.A.\u2019s investigation. After an aborted two-week trial in Brooklyn, the case against DeVecchio was dismissed with the trial judge describing the FBI\u2019s 32 year relationship with Scarpa Sr. as \u201cA deal with the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Triple-Cross-Ladens-Master-Penetrated-ebook\/dp\/B003JBHVLS?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8j_w8Y1d_mixiNjMapLQnY16zHBosfcyIU62sxpMJlauUTy8g3tpI3SRwBcx59bLj_MYlXUvo7fczs4-QLDs4vcayflJgMh7cuUTbEOmeN3skiNnsoY9e9s2UAEXSPeyWzNt4Kf2IADPBw4J8w6y9Q.66ebIWpcMtBFmgH3QyOKNQRpF-pf-SiHBhuNXbGfaSs&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRIPLE CROSS,<\/strong><\/a> the third book in Lance\u2019s 9\/11 investigative trilogy, he provided stunning evidence that senior FBI and Justice Dept. officials may have obstructed justice in their failure to monitor Ali A Mohamed, Osama bin Laden\u2019s principal spy inside the United. States. From the fall of 2007 until 2009, <strong>Patrick Fitzgerald,<\/strong> the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago waged an exhaustive campaign to pulp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Triple-Cross-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0060886889\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8j_w8Y1d_mixiNjMapLQnY16zHBosfcyIU62sxpMJlauUTy8g3tpI3SRwBcx59bLj_MYlXUvo7fczs4-QLDs4vcayflJgMh7cuUTbEOmeN3skiNnsoY9e9s2UAEXSPeyWzNt4Kf2IADPBw4J8w6y9Q.66ebIWpcMtBFmgH3QyOKNQRpF-pf-SiHBhuNXbGfaSs&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the hardcover edition of TRIPLE CROSS<\/strong> <\/a>and prevent the paperback edition from being published.<\/p>\n<p>After a 20 month re-vetting of the book by HarperCollins, after which all of Lance&#8217;s reporting in the hardcover edition was verified, the trade paper edition was published in June 2009 with 26 additional pages documenting Fitzgerald\u2019s censorship efforts. Lance then filed this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mr-fitz-in-your-threat-to_b_233530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HUFFINGTON POST,<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0detailing Fitzgerald&#8217;s campaign to pulp the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCSB &amp; MAGAZINE WRITING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In April, 2010 Lance was appointed Research Scholar at The Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lance\u2019s profile of former FBI undercover asset Emad Salem, <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/Peter_Lance_Spy_PLAYBOY.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cThe Spy Who Came In For The Heat,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> was the lead non-fiction article in Playboy magazine\u2019s September, 2010 issue. For Playboy&#8217;s January, 2011 issue Lance filed <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/Private_War_Anthony%20Shaffer_12.15.10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;The Private War of Anthony Shaffer,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> the untold story of the Pentagon\u2019s censorship of \u201cOperation Dark Heart,\u201d the Afghan war memoir of Bronze Star winner Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer. Earlier for playboy.com Lance chronicled his battle with Fitzgerald in a piece entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/The_Chilling_Effect_Playboy_6_16_09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cThe Chilling Effect.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19409\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-17-at-10.26.47-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-17-at-10.26.47-AM.jpg 785w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-17-at-10.26.47-AM-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-17-at-10.26.47-AM-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>In the summer of 2011 Lance published<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=1210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> a thirteen part series<\/strong><\/a> in The Santa Barbara News press documenting his investigation into alleged corrupt practices by the top DUI officer for the SBPD. The probe led to a grand jury mandating the installation of video in all Santa Barbara PD units.<\/p>\n<p>In April, 2012 Lance&#8217;s second novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stranger-456-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285520\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483669114&amp;sr=1-7&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=petlan-20&amp;linkId=4b229cdbfa080966a7cca32e4c5f5eae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>STRANGER 456<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0a thriller about the hunt for a serial killer, was published worldwide by amazon.com and in June, 2012 he wrote the Foreword to a new updated edition of the 1951 true crime classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Murder-Inc-Burton-B-Turkus\/dp\/0996285539\/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1W9QO65HDM1OR&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uOm23JbBvpjnbGfEhUlGxSCKGe_56ncKV9vuOwuZ27ju9DeT-bEHabDeHD6SJGJxbtBnt0RuPGDiixW4Qw_pzsaA77Rw5DzadDmLg0fNKKw7vo8yI1Dd1Xeaz0SaO8t3l32rSnLZCpqdWX0kA7fe0mybWCBlHUYg9YfmX404dciXQYxlaQqWaGBs4CLm1ZY7W14rRVI0VZjuupqQPZ8tJNMfj9gNXBsRLr9ryP0xO_BFQDua5klX7inI0bjzkqqOedcqrc7kFlf2_P2GPP-GDa6J3ewUb4BNhllvhNu6qWo.uVSjtAt1qsewGLn-Bd1-4BXbvHp4-F4R0A9HiT_JrEE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Murder%2C+Inc.&amp;qid=1721238045&amp;sprefix=murder%2C+inc.%2Caps%2C135&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MURDER, INC<\/strong>.<\/a> by Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEAL WITH THE DEVIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the termination of the Lin DeVecchio murder trial, Lance continued his examination of the FBI\u2019s relationship with Gregory Scarpa Sr. After obtaining a copy of the DeVecchio trial transcript which had been under seal, Lance uncovered new probative evidence of FBI misconduct in its more than three decade relationship with the Colombo killer.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 Lance got access to more than 1,100 heretofore secret files on Scarpa Sr.\u2019s decades-long run as an FBI Top Echelon informant. They proved that in the 12 years ex-SSA Lin DeVecchio acted as Scarpa Sr.\u2019s FBI contacting agent, Senior, who was a hyper-violent capo with the Colombo crime family, was responsible for twenty-six separate homicides. Lance&#8217;s fourth book for HarperCollins, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deal-Devil-Secret-Thirty-Year-Relationship\/dp\/0061455369\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483669721&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=Peter+Lance&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=petlan-20&amp;linkId=9ef139fa7a5dcb6bd0346aaefa1aab67\">DEAL WITH THE DEVIL<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>the epic story of the FBI&#8217;s 30 year relationship with a Mafia killer was published in July 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11955 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM-800x411.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-10.04.02-PM.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>The book got a starred review in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-06-145534-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/a>,<\/strong> was a Book of The Month Club Selection and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/30\/its_not_just_whitey_bulger_meet_another_mafia_killer_aided_for_decades_by_the_fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Introduction<\/strong> <\/a>was excerpted on salon.com. PW also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/authors\/interviews\/article\/57710-a-machiavellian-mafia-chess-master-pw-talks-with-peter-lance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>interviewed Lance<\/strong><\/a> about his six year process of reporting and writing the book, which Nicholas Gage, the former dean of organized crime reporters for <em>The New York Times<\/em> called, &#8220;the most penetrating look into the inner workings of the Mafia since THE VALACHI PAPERS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In January, 2015 Lance wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/Attach_F_Shadow_Final_Foreword_1_19_15.pdf\"><strong>The Foreword<\/strong><\/a> to the new memoir by John Gotti Jr., SHADOW OF MY FATHER. A year later, he adapted his novel STRANGER 456 <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=8137\"><strong>into a nine-hour scripted dramatic series<\/strong><\/a>. During this period Lance filed multiple analytical pieces for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/author\/pl-500\"><strong>The Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently Lance adapted two of his HarperCollins books, <strong>TRIPLE CROSS <\/strong>and <strong>DEAL WITH THE DEVIL<\/strong> into <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DEAL-SERIES-media-release-8.10.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a ten-hour scripted dramatic series.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15057 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ET-Doris-Caption-Deck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ET-Doris-Caption-Deck.jpg 852w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ET-Doris-Caption-Deck-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ET-Doris-Caption-Deck-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ET-Doris-Caption-Deck-800x629.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Peter Lance&#8217;s most recent best seller has an origin story that spans more than half a century. In June of 1967, he began working as a cub reporter for The Newport Daily News just months after billionaire Doris Duke crushed her longtime art curator and designer, Eduardo Tirella to death under the wheels of a two ton station wagon outside the gates of her Newport estate, Rough Point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18315\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def.jpg 2120w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-1536x1071.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-2048x1428.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-10.8.66-Higher-Def-800x558.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>The local police quickly concluded it was &#8220;an unfortunate accident&#8221; and closed the case. Almost immediately Ms. Duke began donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the City\u00a0 (then facing bankruptcy) prompting rumors that she had bought her way out of murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>Over the ensuing decades, Lance was haunted by the prospect of eventually uncovering the truth. In 2018 he returned to Newport and spent two years locating the long missing official police report and interviewing surviving sources. The result was an 8,000 word piece published by <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/VF-HOM-Print-Layout-7.16.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vanity Fair across 14 pages<\/strong><\/a> in its July\/August 2020 issue. It turned out to be the most read VF piece of the year. In fact, AppleNews+ called a special <a href=\"https:\/\/audm.herokuapp.com\/player-embed\/?pub=vf&amp;articleID=homicide-rough-point\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>audio recording of the story<\/b><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwijtZzWncnuAhV7GDQIHTOdB9YQFjAAegQIARAC&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.news%2FAmIscmsrSQMnWUndhua96oA&amp;usg=AOvVaw3-sbsyWHEfU1osNNXUoWyH\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The Best True Crime Audio of 2o2o.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February, 23rd, 2021 Tenacity Media Books published a 438 page book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT<\/strong><\/a>, based, in part on the piece. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a6Sl7qRnFqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A TRAILER for the book<\/strong><\/a>, available in four editions: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Homicide+At+Rough+Point&amp;qid=1594143368&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardcover<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HOMICIDE-AT-ROUGH-POINT-Richest\/dp\/1736363603\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1594143368&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trade Paperback<\/a>, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HOMICIDE-AT-ROUGH-POINT-Richest-ebook\/dp\/B08V4MLSNN\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1594143368&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kindle<\/strong>,<\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Richest-America\/dp\/B08YFKY212\/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1594143368&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audible\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16581 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66.jpg 1774w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-994x1024.jpg 994w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-768x791.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-1491x1536.jpg 1491w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rough-Point-Gates-10.8.66-800x824.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>In the summer of 2021 during a book signing at <a href=\"https:\/\/brentonhotel.com\/life-at-the-brenton\/homicide-at-rough-point-at-the-brenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Brenton Hotel in Newport<\/strong><\/a>, where he was &#8220;author in residence,&#8221; Lance met <strong>Bob Walker Jr.<\/strong> who revealed that he&#8217;d been the 13 year-old paperboy for Rough Point at the time of Eduardo&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>On the late afternoon of October 7th, 1966 as he was about to deliver The Newport Daily News to Duke&#8217;s estate, Bob heard the entire lead up to the fatal crash and actually confronted Doris herself. He had kept secret what he heard, but decided to come forward after 54 years because what he read\u00a0 in &#8220;HOMICIDE&#8221; synced precisely with his memory of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>After vetting Bob, Lance realized that he was talking to <strong>the only living witness to the murder<\/strong>. So he filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/08\/the-doris-duke-cold-case-reopens-eyewitness-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a second piece for VF<\/strong><\/a> and Vanity Fair&#8217;s editors compiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/video\/watch\/an-eyewitnesss-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THIS VIDEO<\/strong><\/a> from interviews Lance did with Bob outside Rough Point. When the Newport Police reopened the case, prompted by Bob&#8217;s account, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/doris-duke-heiress-death-47610ea9308d92bf7ca1dffa7decfa6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Associated Press published this piece<\/a> <\/strong>that generated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9865023\/1966-death-heiress-employee-renewed-scrutiny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> international headlines<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19423 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP-Story-Mark-Pratt-Duke-case-reopened.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP-Story-Mark-Pratt-Duke-case-reopened.jpg 466w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP-Story-Mark-Pratt-Duke-case-reopened-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lance has just adapted his work for VF and the book into a PILOT script and DECK for a continuing eight hour scripted dramatic series.\u00a0This links to <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HOMICIDE_GRAPHIC_BIBLE_6_20_22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A GRAPHIC BIBLE<\/strong> <\/a>for Season One. He&#8217;s currently working on a screenplay for a thriller that links back to the JFK Assassination, which<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXISJ8fYFqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>he reported on for ABC<\/strong> <strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/a> on its 20th anniversary.<br \/>\nPeter Lance can be followed on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/peterlance_?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>X @PETERLANCE_<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19419 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HOMICIDE-DECK-1-800x537.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Peter%20Lance%20Biography\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>April 16th, 2026 \u00a0Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 20 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent. 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