擅長撰寫紐約黑手黨與犯罪集團的知名記實犯罪文學作家暨《紐約時報》暢銷作家菲爾普．卡羅的最新力作。他的上本暢銷作《黑幫頭號殺手》（The Butcher），赤裸裸紀錄一位最變態最臭名昭彰的黑幫殺手的精神世界，並對他的變態心理進行深入剖析。繼這本躋身英美暢銷書榜的傳記賣出電影版權，故事準備搬上大銀幕。

“… 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. His intensely personal memoir chronicles Carlo’s rise from the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, seeing a murder when he was fourteen years old, to becoming a New York Times bestselling author.

Carlo 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 killer that is taking him down slowly. 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.

Philip Carlo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he earned a Ph.D. in the ways of the street. He escaped a life of crime by writing about it with unusual insight. He is the author of the bestsellers THE NIGHT STALKER, THE ICE MAN, and most recently, THE BUTCHER. He was recently profiled in a two-page feature article in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/nyregion/20carlo.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

Please visit www.philipcarlo.com