About John Christie
John Christie is a veteran journalist with a reputation for getting the story, no matter what.
He has gone undercover at a state mental hospital to reveal lax treatment of patients. He refused a court order to reveal his sources for his series that exposed a pattern of police brutality in a Massachusetts coastal town. He has waded into riots, crashed secret government meetings, jumped out of an airplane and walked Gloucester's greasy pole and written about all of it.
To get his own story, though, he had to do something even harder: mine his memory and his emotions to get to the bottom of why he was feeling so unmoored in his seventh decade. That's where his experience as an investigative reporter came in handy.
Because now he had to investigate himself.
That eventually led him to take another risk. To trace the beginning of his family's history – and his – he had to travel to a section of Turkey during a time when the U. S. State Department warned American citizens to stay away due to dangers from ISIS and the ongoing Syrian War.
