Christopher Dickey

Christopher Swift Dickey (August 31, 1951 – July 16, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and news editor. He was the Paris-based world news editor for ''The Daily Beast''. He authored seven books, including ''Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South'' (2015); ''Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD'' (2009), and a memoir, ''Summer of Deliverance'' (1998), about his father, the poet/novelist James Dickey. Provided by Wikipedia