Philip Carlo Books In Order

Novels

  1. Stolen Flower (1986)
  2. Predators and Prayers (2005)
  3. Smiling Wolf (2006)

Non fiction

  1. The Night Stalker (1996)
  2. The Ice Man (2006)
  3. Gaspipe (2008)
  4. The Butcher (2009)
  5. The Killer Within (2010)
  6. Lollipop (2011)

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Smiling Wolf

Phillip Carlo, author or bestselling ‘Predator and Prayers’ presents story about a mythical subculture of New York City.

The Night Stalker

From out of the darkness he comes, silent and deadly. Cloaked all in black, he moves in shadows, blending and becoming one with them. No one ever sees him…
.. until it is too late. He is more than one of the most feared serial killers of all time. He is Richard Ramirez, a man, who ten years ago left thirteen people dead and the city of Los Angeles paralyzed with fear. Here at least is the definitive account of America’s most feared serial murderer, based on sixty hours of personal interviews with Richard Ramirez himself. You will follow Richard on his odyssey into depravity and mind numbing violence. You’ll listen to an unprecedented police manhunt gather force to capture The Night Stalker. Includes an actual interview with Ramirez. In his own words, in his own voice, hear Richard discuss the death rattle, sex & serial killers & how women can avoid becoming victims. Told by Danny Aiello. Three hours. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Research is the strong suit of this book about darkly handsome Richard Ramirez, who terrorized Los Angeles for 14 months in 1984 85 with his penchant for breaking into homes dressed all in black, where he fiercely assaulted, sodomized, robbed, and in 13 cases murdered his victims. Carlo spent more than 100 hours interviewing Ramirez on death row, more than a month in El Paso, Texas, talking to Ramirez’s family and friends, and another month hanging out with the two detectives who solved the case. He made visits to all 19 crime scenes in the middle of the night. His narrative maintains a steady focus on Ramirez, drawing no conclusions about his Satanism or his mental pathology and simply letting his appalling deeds and words speak for themselves. The trial and post trial sections are long but interesting, covering Ramirez’s rage attacks and his many ‘groupies’ one of them a juror!, especially Doreen Lloyd, whom he married in September 1996. This reviewer found Philip Carlo’s book much better than Clifford L. Linedecker’s Night Stalker.

The Ice Man

Over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard The Iceman Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano at Sparks Steakhouse. John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sad*istic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers. By his own estimate, he killed over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique. This trail of murder lasted over thirty years and took Kuklinski all over America and to the far corners of the earth, Brazil, Africa, and Europe. Along the way, he married, had three children, and put them through Catholic school. His daughter s medical condition meant regular stays in children s hospitals, where Kuklinski was remembered as an affectionate father, extremely kind to children. Each Christmas found the Kuklinski home festooned in colorful lights; each summer was a succession of block parties. His family never suspected a thing.

Gaspipe

Anthony ‘Gaspipe‘ Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted complete and total access to a journalist. Casso has given New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. This is his shocking story.

From birth, Anthony Casso’s mob life was preordained. Michael Casso introduced his young son around South Brooklyn’s social clubs, where ‘men of honor’ did business by shaking pinkie ringed hands hands equally at home pilfering stolen goods from the Brooklyn docks or gripping the cold steel of a silenced pistol. Young Anthony watched and listened and decided that he would devote his life to crime.

Casso would prove his talent for ‘earning,’ concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring into New York vast quantities of cocaine, mari*juana, and hero*in. Casso also had an uncanny ability to work with the other Mafia families, and he forged unusually strong ties with the Russian mob. By the time Casso took the reins of the Lucchese family, he was a seasoned boss, a very dangerous man.

It was a great life Casso and his beautiful wife, Lillian, had money to burn; Casso and his crew brought in so much cash that he had dozens of large safe deposit boxes filled with bricks of hundred dollar bills. But the law finally caught up with him in his New Jersey safe house in 1994. Rather than stoically face the music like the old time mafiosi he revered, Casso became the thing he most hated a rat. It broke his family’s heart and made the once feared and revered mobster an object of scorn and disgust among his former friends. For it turned out that a lifetime of street smarts completely failed him in dealing with a group even more cunning and ruthless than the Mafia the U.S. government.

Detailing Casso’s feud with John Gotti and their attempts to kill each other, the ‘Windows Case’ that led to the beginning of the end for the mob in New York, and Casso’s dealings with decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa the ‘Mafia cops’ Gaspipe is the inside story of one man’s rise and fall, mirroring the rise and fall of a way of life, a roller coaster ride into a netherworld few outsiders have ever dared to enter.

The Butcher

New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo, one of the foremost chroniclers of the New York Mafia and the criminal mind, returns with a shocking exploration of his most twisted and notorious villain yet

Tommy ‘Karate’ Pitera was not like other mafiosi. He was not only a capo in the notorious Bonanno family but also a devoted student of crime a deadly martial artist who’d been trained in Japan as a teenager. Highly skilled with knives and other lethal weapons, dressed entirely in black, Pitera murdered his way to becoming one of the premier assassins in New York City during the 1980s he even killed at the behest of John Gotti.

Remorseless and deadly, Pitera took human lives as if he had a God given right, while at the same time dealing high grade Sicilian hero*in and South American cocaine. There were numerous men within the New York Mafia who killed people, men who weren’t afraid of anyone or anything, but all of them looked the other way when they saw Pitera coming. Word on the street was that he didn’t just whack people; he made them disappear forever. In hushed whispers people spoke of Pitera’s secret burial grounds and the grotesque things he did to his victim’s bodies. If the Mafia had a Jeffrey Dahmer, it was surely Tommy Pitera.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Jim Hunt had a gift for bringing down bad guys. During Hunt’s stellar career at the DEA, he had arrested his share of criminals and had caught many of the elusive drug lords of New York City. But nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he and his elite antidrug unit began investigating Tommy Pitera. What started as a routine investigation into a cocaine and hero*in ring in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, grew exponentially as Hunt and his team uncovered the layers of death that surrounded Pitera. Through carefully placed wiretaps, dangerous stakeouts, and fearful informants, Hunt managed to turn Pitera’s few confidants against him, but not before Pitera had killed an estimated sixty people.

Offering the first ever look at the life and crimes of Tommy ‘Karate’ Pitera, New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo exposes the man behind some of the most horrific murders in Mafia history and the heroic investigator who brought him down. Getting inside the minds of both killer and detective, Carlo masterfully details the delicate and deadly game of cat and mouse that resulted in the capture of a Mafia killer unlike any other. A tale of murder, drugs, money, and ultimately justice, The Butcher is Carlo’s most frightening portrayal yet of the depraved depths within a psychopath’s mind.

The Killer Within

In researching his acclaimed true-crime books, Philip 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 monstrous 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 writing prodigiously in the face of adversity. The Killer Within is a gripping, suspenseful page-turner that pulls the listener into the netherworld of Mafia bosses, Mafia hit men, and serial killers, as well as the hard realities of dealing with a fatal disease.

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