Bryan Christy is author of the espionage novel IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS and the non-fiction book THE LIZARD KING (Twelve), currently in production for HBO by A24 and Goode Films. Bryan founded Special Investigations at National Geographic, the organization’s first criminal investigations effort, and is a National Geographic Society Rolex Explorer of the Year. For its 125th anniversary, National Geographic named his work “One of Ten Ways National Geographic has Changed the World.”
His education includes University of Michigan Law School, Tokyo University Law School (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), Cornell University’s FALCON Japanese Program, Pennsylvania State University, and time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop under James Alan McPherson.