Tony Camerino is a writer known for his work on the hit CBS drama Person of Interest, which won two People’s Choice Awards. He's also written on the network dramas A.P.B, Taken, and The Enemy Within, and developed original projects for Netflix (Black Hawk Down), Amazon, and Fox. His feature script Landslide (co-written with Will Staples), based on his military memoir How to Break a Terrorist, made the 2015 Blacklist. He also authored Kill or Capture (St. Martin’s Press) and won an Emmy for his writing on a JFK documentary called Clouds Over Cuba. Tony is a combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, and retired with 20 years of service in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot, and was awarded an Aerial Achievement Medal for his accomplishments in the Balkans. He later served as a Special Agent in the Office of Special Investigations where he conducted criminal investigations and counterintelligence. As a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, he personally conducted or supervised over 1,300 interrogations. Tony was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements, including leading the interrogations that located Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the father of ISIS, who was killed in an airstrike. An outspoken critic of torture, Tony has written numerous Op-Eds and articles on the subject, and trained interrogators from 18 countries for the United Nations. He is a Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations and a screenwriting instructor at UCLA Extension.