ANDREW L. URBAN, an award-winning author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, fled Hungary as a child during the 1956 revolution, eventually settling in Australia. He has written and edited for the national daily newspaper The Australian and has authored investigative books on victims of crime.

CHRIS MCLEOD is an author, editor, and journalist who has written and edited books and bookazines on Great Trains of the World, Great Golf Course of the World, and Unsolved Murder Mysteries sold in more than 50 countries. He recently coauthored Barty, the biography of the #1 ranked world women's tennis star Ash Barty. Chris has family in Ukraine.

REBEKAH KOFFLER is a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert. Working with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency's National Clandestine Service, she has led "red" teams during wargames and briefed the Pentagon, the White House, and NATO on Russian affairs. U.S. military commanders have called her a "national asset," and she received the National Intelligence Professional Award. Now an independent consultant, she lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband, the journalist Keith Koffler, and their children.