JEFFREY ROBINSON
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
The Telegraph, London: "Jeffrey Robinson (is) one of the world's leading experts on international financial crime."
The Globe and Mail: "Robinson is an expert story teller whose clear, lively prose is lent force by a sharp sense of irony."
Sunday Business: “If you were looking for the financial equivalent of Renaissance Man... Jeffrey Robinson would fit the bill perfectly. The late 20th century demands volumes and volubility, both of which Robinson possesses in abundance.”
Books in Canada: “Robinson’s writing skills are formidable... his prose is vivid, pithy, constantly absorbing; his sense of story, flawless.”
The Sydney Sun Herald: “Jeffrey Robinson is a witty and cynical writer.”
The National Post: “Robinson shows he knows exactly what is going on.”
The Daily Mail :“Disgracefully entertaining.”
Bestselling author and critic, Val McDermid: “Like going out to dinner with your most entertaining friend and ending up talking till dawn because the company's so good.”
JR's NOTABLE QUOTES
CNN: "If you can get to the money, if you can cut off the cash flow and cut off the reinvestment, you can bankrupt the bastards and that takes product off the streets."
ABC Good Morning America: "I don't care what story they tell you. If you didn't buy a ticket, you didn't win the lottery."
ITN: "The problem is that the good guys have all the rules and no money while the bad guys have all the money and no rules."
Fox News: "Fraud is a very simple crime to understand. I tell you a lie, you give me money, that's fraud. It is never any more complicated than that."
CNN: "Crime is a business, and the object of all businesses is to make money."
BBC Radio 4: "Panama is not a country, it's a business."
London Sunday Times: "Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts."
Sky News: "Robinson's Law - As soon as someone in public office starts blaming the press, you know the bastard's guilty."
Born in Long Beach, NY (1945), Jeffrey Robinson began selling freelance articles and stories to small magazines before his 15th birthday. Later, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia (BA-1967), he wrote for television and radio, was a staff writer at KYW-TV3 (1965), scripted a popular local children's show and was on the writing staff of "The Mike Douglas Show" (1966), a nationally televised daily talk show.
After serving as a press and public relations staff officer for five generals and three colonels in the United States Air Force (1967-1971), he took up residence in the south of France where he spent the next 12 years vagabonding around the world, writing articles and short stories for leading North American and British periodicals.
For much of those years, he was a leading feature writer for the International Herald Tribune in Paris.
In 1982, now earning his living as an established freelance journalist and short story writer, he moved to London England to write books. He also wrote television and radio documentaries for the BBC, plus radio dramas.
After 25 years there, he returned to New York in 2007.
Ash and Honor - The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11 is his 30th book. Written as long form narrative journalism - the single most difficult form of non-fiction - he tells dramatic stories of more than 60 eyewitness, many of whom who have never spoken publicly, taking readers on a dramatic, minute-by-minute account of the military, national security, and aviation response on that infamous day.
Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Robinson takes readers into the cockpit of what was possibly “the fifth plane;” into the Burn Intensive Care Unit at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where one incredibly determined nurse cared for a man who, against the odds of 20-1 of him dying, remarkably saved his life; and onto Air Force One where accurate information was hard to come by – and at times, the commander in chief was dangerously incommunicado – as the agents and crew did all they could to protect the president.
He reveals what happened in a secure bunker five stories below the East Wing of the White House, where an illegal order was made to shoot down a civilian passenger jet; in a tense meeting in the National Military Command Center’s top-secret Air Threat Conference; and in NORAD’s underground Cheyenne Mountain, where a direct threat to NORAD was so menacing that the commanding General declared “Battle stations” deep inside and ordered the 30 ton hardened steel blast doors shut.
A popular after-dinner and keynote speaker, Robinson is a winner of the coveted Benedictine "After-Dinner Speaker of the Year" award (1990.)
He is married to the former Aline Benayoun of Antibes, France. Their son Joshua is a sports journalist and their daughter Celine writes for television and the theater.