Simon Read is an award-winning journalist and author of several works of history and nonfiction, including The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships, Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent, and Human Game: The 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen. His work has been featured on the top-rated true crime podcasts Morbid and Criminal. As a journalist, his writing has appeared in a variety of journals, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Time magazine.