Philip Carlo
| Philip Carlo was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he earned a Ph.D. in the ways of the street. Carlo escaped a life of crime by writing about it with unusual insight. He is the author of the true crime bestsellers The Night Stalker, about notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez, The Ice Man, about infamous Maria contract killer Richard Kukinski, and most recently The Butcher.
Please visit www.philipcarlo.com |
| THE KILLER WITHIN: In the Company of Monsters Overlook, Fall 2010 Genre: Current Events & Politics Agent: Matt Bialer Foreign Sales |
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“… after 28 years of stalking killers, the tables have turned on Mr. Carlo. Death is now stalking him.”—New York Times Philip Carlo has profiled serial killers, sexual sadists, Mafia bosses, and hired assassins. This memoir chronicles Carlo’s rise from the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, witnessing a murder when he was fourteen years old, to becoming a New York Times bestselling author. He gives the inside story of how he managed to get tight-lipped, stone-cold killers to tell all—and reveals his personal battle with a silent, slow killer. Diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative, incurable disease, Carlo is now confined to a wheelchair. Suddenly, after years of penetrating the minds of killers, he now finds himself pursued by the grim reaper. But rather than lying down and succumbing to the disease, he continues to write and, since his diagnosis, has published two bestselling books. Carlo’s tremendous will to live is huge affirmation of the human spirit and its ability to overcome even the steepest odds. |
