Tony Camerino

Tony Camerino is a retired combat veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Reserves. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot and served in Bosnia and Kosovo. Later, as a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, he personally conducted or supervised over 1,300 interrogations. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements, including leading the interrogations that located Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the notorious Al Qaeda leader and ISIS founder, who was killed in a subsequent airstrike. Camerino is the author of How to Break a Terrorist and Kill or Capture (both released under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander by St. Martin's Press). An outspoken critic of torture, he has published Op-Eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and a cover story, "Martyrdom, Interrupted," in The National Interest. He is a Fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations and writes for television and film. His credits include Person of Interest, A.P.B., Taken, and The Enemy Within. His feature film adaptation of his first book, Landslide (co-written with Will Staples), made the 2015 Blacklist. He also developed Kill or Capture for Amazon, Black Hawk Down for Netflix, and a true story about a Special Forces soldier turned Massachusetts State Trooper for Fox.