Vernon F. Loeb is an American journalist and book author. Before being named managing editor at the Houston Chronicle. Mr. Loeb was Metro Editor at the Washington Post. He is co-author of the books King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East with Jack O'Connell, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus with Paula Broadwell, and Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story with Jack Devine.