George Anastasia is the grandson of Sicilian immigrants who resided in South Philadelphia and spent more than thirty years reporting on crime for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Blood and Honor: Within the Scarfo Mob--the Mafia's Most Brutal Family (which Jimmy Breslin dubbed the best gangster book ever written), The Last Gangster, and The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey are among his nonfiction works. He is a resident of southern New Jersey.