the vanishing
Two years after Billy Reilly, a young American with FBI ties, disappeared in Russia in 2015, a Wall Street Journal reporter started digging.
Brett Forrest is a national-security reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where his investigative work focuses on the former Soviet Union. In the Russo-Ukrainian war, Forrest was the first reporter to reach the town of Bucha and uncover evidence of atrocities. He is the author of Lost Son, The Big Fix (an international bestseller), and Long Bomb. Forrest shared a National Magazine Award at ESPN, where he co-directed the true-crime documentary Pin Kings, an Emmy nominee. Forrest's international-affairs reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and National Geographic. He has lived and worked in Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, and other countries.