James Brabazon is an award-winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in over seventy countries, investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments.

His awards include the Rory Peck Trust International Impact Award, the Rory Peck Freelancer's choice Award, the IDA Courage Under FireAward and the FPA's TV News Story of the Year. He has made over thirty films broadcast by the BBC, Channel 4, HBO, CNN and the Discovery Channel.

He lectures on the ethics and practicalities of reporting from war zones and his reportagehas been published in the Observer and the Guardian. Heis the author of the critically acclaimed My Friend the Mercenary. The Break Line is his first novel.