member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Works Novels Red Mercury (1996), as Max Barclay The Man Who Ate The 747 (2000) Ponzi's Last Swindle (2003) The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (2004) Non-fiction The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life (2009), self-help Adaptations Charlie St. Cloud (2010), film directed by Burr Steers, based on novel The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud References External links Official website Corporate Bio Living people 1964 births American male journalists 20th-century American Jews Business speakers Businesspeople from Los Angeles Harvard College alumni American social sciences writers American Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Presidents of ABC News American Broadcasting Company executives Presidents of the American Broadcasting Company Harvard-Westlake School alumni 21st-century American Jews