Guy Lawson Biography

Guy is the New York Times bestselling author of Arms and The Dudes: How Three Miami Beach Stoners Became the Most Unlikely Gun Runners in History. He is also the author of the Octopus: Sam Israel the Secret Market and Wall Street’s Wildest Con and The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia.
For two decades Guy has traveled the world reporting on a wide range of subjects—conflict in the Balkans the Mexican drug wars ice hockey in northern Canada life in a Bowery flophouse fútbol in Brazil Hezbollah suicide bombers the Rwandan genocide war crime trials and FBI-fabricated domestic terrorism cases among others. His work has appeared in many international publications including The New York Times Magazine Harper’s GQ Rolling Stone The Guardian The Australian and the Globe and Mail.
Guy has four projects in development for film. Arms and the Dudes is currently being filmed by Warner Brothers with Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street 21 Jump Street) and Miles Teller (Whiplash The Spectacular Now) starring and Todd Phillips (The Hangover I II II) directing. In April 2015 Guy’s Rolling Stone article The Dukes of Oxy was optioned by New Line/Warner Brothers with Mike De Luca (The Social Network Moneyball) attached to produce and Ansel Elgort (Divergent The Fault in Our Stars) to star. In addition Guy’s book Octopus is with HBO to be written and directed by Peter Gould (Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Too Big to Fail). The Brotherhoods is with Warner Brothers to be produced by Dan Lin (The Lego Movie Sherlock Holmes I II III).

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