Guy Lawson is a true-crime journalist who has written for The Observer, GQ, Rolling Stone and New York Times. His Rolling Stone piece 'Arms and the Dudes' is currently shooting with Warner Brothers. For Octopus, he interviewed Sam Israel in prison for three years and travelled extensively through London, Berlin, Washington, and New York to corroborate Israel's story. The book is currently in a bidding war to be optioned for a Hollywood movie.
