Mark Bowden is the author of Bringing the Heat and Doctor Dealer. He has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for nineteen years and has won many national awards for his writing, including the Overseas Press club's Hal Boyle Award for Best Foreign reporting for his original series on the Battle of Mogadishu, which has appeared in ten newspapers across the nation. Bowden has also written for Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Parade, and other magazines. He is currently at work on a screenplay for the motion picture version of Black Hawk Down.

Film rights to Black Hawk Down have been optioned by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and paperback rights have been sold to Penguin. The book is a main selection of the Military Book Club and a featured alternate of The Literary Guild. Black Hawk Down is available as an audio book from Simon & Schuster Audio.