The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Darfur, Gujarat, Gaza, Aceh, Angola, and Haiti. He was a freelance radio and print journalist before joining the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and then the United Nations, for which he worked for over twelve years. His first book, "The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers," was inspired by his work as the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka from 2007 up until the end of 2009, the final two years of the civil war. Weiss is now a visiting scholar at Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Social Affairs Correspondent for Australia's "Global Mail."