Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and poet. His books have been published in more than twenty countries and include Jawbreaker (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen), Inside SEAL Team Six (with SEAL assault leader Don Mann), The Chopin Manuscript (winner of the 2008 Audio Book of the Year), and Plunging Into Haiti (winner of the 2006 Douglas Dillon Prize for American Diplomacy), His adaptation of Jim Thompson's Recoil is scheduled to start filming later this year with James Foley directing. He's also the creator of an upcoming TV series The Stylist.