Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Escape Artist," "The Inner Circle," and many other bestselling thrillers, as well as the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. He is also the host of the History Channel TV shows Brad Meltzer’s "Decoded" and Brad Meltzer’s "Lost History," which he used to help find the missing 9/11 flag that the firefighters raised at Ground Zero.
His first non-fiction book for adults is out now. Co-authored with John Mensch, "The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington," takes place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth and tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.