Miles Johnson talks to Matthew Stadlen

Foreign correspondent and investigator of organised crime and financial corruption Miles Johnson looks at the interlinked lives of three men wrapped up in a world of drugs, war and international crime.

Johnson tells the stories of a veteran Drug Enforcement Agency agent tracking the dirty money of dangerous and powerful figures, a Mafia chief planning the biggest cocaine deal of his career, and a Hezbollah master bomb-maker sent to Syria on a deadly mission. He shows how each of these is grappling with powerful forces that shape the world, including those that topple governments, send refugees fleeing across the world and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias. Johnson looks back at the historical conflicts, events and personal histories that shaped these men.

‘Chasing Shadows is an astounding true crime epic that puts us in the room as a Calabrian mob boss whispers to his mistress, a Lebanese militant plots to set the world on fire, and a US agent races to expose it all’ Dan McCrum, author of Money Men

Johnson is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He has worked in New York, Madrid and Rome and was nominated for the Foreign Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards for his work covering the Italian Mafia.