JOSEPH CUMMINS es autor de la novela The Snow Train (2001) y editor de las antologías Cannibals: Shocking True Stories of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea y The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told. Asimismo, suyas son las obras Anything for a Vote: A History of Dirty Tricks and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns y Turn Around and Run Like Hell: Amazing Stories of Unconventional Military Strategies That Worked. En 2010 publicó con Planeta Grandes episodios desconocidos de la Historia.