Warrick was given the 2003 Bob Consadine Award for best interpretation of international affairs in a newspaper by the
Overseas Press Club of America, for his articles about proliferation threats. In September 2002, Warrick was one of the first journalists to publish reports casting doubt on the Bush administration's claims that aluminum tubes discovered in Iraq were appropriate for use in uranium centrifuges. Prior to his work at
The Washington Post, Warrick reported for
The News & Observer of
Raleigh, North Carolina. The newspaper received the
1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles by Warrick, Melanie Sill and Pat Stith "on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry". The North Carolina native was previously an Eastern Europe correspondent for UPI and also worked for
The Philadelphia Inquirer and the
Delaware County Daily Times. Warrick is the author of
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA, a narrative culminating in the December 30, 2009,
Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan, which resulted in the murder of seven CIA employees by a suicide bomber. Warrick credits
Bob Woodward for helping him structure the book's manuscript. Warrick was awarded the
2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS which recounts the characters and events behind the emergence of the Islamic State. His third book, ''
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World'' is a narrative account of
Syria's chemical-weapons crisis and the effort to remove the country's chemical weapons arsenal in the middle of a
civil war. ==Personal life ==