LOUIS FERRANTE led a professional heist crew within the Gambino crime family and served nearly a decade in America's worst prisons after refusing to inform on his former associates. While in prison, he educated himself and studied law, science and history, ultimately becoming a writer. His last book, Mob Rules , was an international bestseller translated into twenty languages, and his Discovery Channel series, Inside the Gangsters' Code , earned him a Grierson Award nomination for Presenter of the Year.