Adam Higginbotham won William E. Colby Award

April 22, 2020

Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster” has won a $5,000 prize.

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The award is named for the late CIA director William E. Colby. In 1999, the Colby Award was established.

Previous winners of the award include Karl Marlantes’ novel Matterhorn and Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War.

The award is given for an excellent book. The book about the history of military or intelligence.