In researching his acclaimed true crime books, Phil Carlo has interviewed some of the most infamous criminals and killers of our times in prisons and on Death Rows throughout the country. He has been able to forge trusting relationships with his subjects, enabling him to extract the facts behind their infamous acts and identify what motivated them to commit their horrific crimes. Carlo's investigative achievements are remarkable, but what wasn't known to his readers is that, while working on The Ice Man , he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a terminal illness that causes all of the muscles in the body to atrophy over time. Suddenly, after years of penetrating the minds of killers, Carlo found himself being pursued by the grim reaper. But rather than lying down and succumbing to the disease, Carlo continued to work, and his books are still being published, to both critical and commercial acclaim. In The Killer Within , Carlo documents his difficult experiences with ALS and explains how he has managed to continue to write prodigiously in the face of adversity. The Killer Within is a gripping, suspenseful page turner that pulls the reader into the netherworld of Mafia bosses, Mafia hit men and serial killers, as well as the hard realities of dealing with a fatal disease. Praise for Philip Carlo "The dean of true-crime horror writers and the sometime muse of Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro." - The New York Times "A hell of a book, a brutal page-turner." -Larry King "We've all read novelists and true crime writers who try to put you inside-the- mind-of-the-serial-killer, but I can't remember one that succeeded with the physical and psychological intimacy of this collaboration between the writer and the killer himself." - New York Press "I couldn¦t put the book down. The details are amazing, told from many points of view; very scary indeed." - Los Angeles Times "Carlo has given us an astonishing portrait of a killer not seen since In Cold Blood ." -Denis Hamill, New York Daily News Used Book in Good Condition