BEN FOUNTAIN is a former practicing attorney and the author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; and Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere. His latest book, Devil Makes Three: A Novel (Flatiron Books), is a tale of greed and American complicities in Haiti.