While at the Times, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for its coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, where Braun played an integral part of the writing.
[4][5][6] Braun also previously reported for the Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Daily News and Baltimore News-American.
[1] Braun also co-authored the book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (2007) with Douglas Farah.
The book detailed how Bout was able to deliver weapons to the deviant groups and nations, including militants in the Taliban, Somalia, and Yemen.
[7] Publishers Weekly wrote that, "The authors paint a depressing picture of an avalanche of war-making material pouring into poor, violence-wracked nations despite well-publicized U.N.