Louis Ferrante
From former Mafia insider and federal prison inmate Louis Ferrante comes a remarkable and moving memoir about the author’s journey from a life of crime to that of a professional writer.
As a teenager, Ferrante made his reputation as a gang leader. Later, he hooked up with the Gambino crime family. During his time with the mob, Ferrante committed some of the most lucrative robberies in US history.
Eventually, the law caught up with him and Louis found himself behind bars. In jail, Louis read his first book and suddenly, a whole new world opened up to him. During his 8 1/2 years in prison he read everything from Caesar’s GALLIC WARS to classic 19th century fiction.
A self-educated man, Ferrante successfully appealed his own conviction, a case that is cited in courtrooms across the country. In addition to law, he studied the three major faiths, including Buddhism, and eventually chose to become an Orthodox Jew.
Now out of prison, Ferrante tells the story of his meteoric rise in the Mafia, his time in prison, and the astonishing turn around his life has made. Louis Ferrante has reinvented himself as a writer.