JIMMY BURNS

Jimmy Burns OBE is a prize-winning author, with his books published in English and multiple translations,  and contributes to international media  across print, TV & radio.

He is a former Financial Times journalist where he worked as a foreign correspondent and a senior reporter covering security and intelligence, and formed part of the newspaper’s prize-winning investigative unit which won a national newspaper award for its coverage of Robert Maxwell business dealings and death. He was also part of an FT  team that won the NetMedia European Online Journalism Awards for its ground-breaking report  on weapons of mass destruction.

Educated at Stonyhurst College,  University College, London and  the London School of Economics, Burns has  contributed to several academic conferences on security and intelligence.

Among his previous widely praised books are biographies of Pope Francis, and Diego Maradona, The Land that Lost its Heroes, How Argentina Lost the Falklands War (which received the Somerset Maugham non-fiction prize), and Papa Spy, his account of his father’s covert activities in wartime Spain and Portugal and the treachery of the Cambridge spies.

Jimmy Burns’ ‘A Faithful Spy’ was published by Chiselbury on 1 October 2023. It is available for purchase.

https://www.jimmy-burns.com