John Carlin has written Playing the Enemy, the book about Nelson Mandela on which the film Invictus was based, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and directed by Clint Eastwood. He has also co-written Rafa: My Story, the official bio of Rafa Nadal, and White Angels, about Real Madrid in the age of Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane. Carlin, who is bilingual, has additionally had two books published in Spanish, Heroica Tierra Cruel and La Tribu.A journalist for 30 years, much of it as a foreign correpondent in Africa and the Americas, he has covered wars, peace negotiations, soccer, food and won numerous awards, some of them for TV and radio documentaries. He has worked for or contributed to el Pais (Spain), the London Times and Sunday Times, New York Times, Observer, BBC, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Channel Four, PBS, among others.