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Welcome to the Family

The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World

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By Barry Hertz

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$27.99

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  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99
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The first-ever deeply reported look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster – the Fast & Furious franchise – a series that uncannily anticipated the shifting currents of pop culture while changing the business of global entertainment at the same time. 

What do Miami drug traffickers, bloodthirsty Yakuza warriors, Corona-soaked backyard BBQs, Dame Helen Mirren, and a duct-taped 1984 Pontiac Fiero-turned-rocket-fueled spaceship have in common? They are all essential elements of the ever-expanding, logic- and laws-of-physics-defying Fast & Furious universe: the most entertaining, outlandish, and secretly genius Hollywood creation that everyone has taken for granted – until now. Through an escalating series of high-risk maneuvers – from synapse-stretching stunts to timeline-bending narratives to explosive PR wars between the biggest, baddest, baldest egos in showbiz – the Fast family (and it is a family above all else) has redefined the art and commerce of popcorn moviemaking. And the gang did it all while staring down the kind of monumental, soul-rattling challenges – the death of a star, the upheaval of an industry – that would have crushed the speed and spirit of any other filmmaking team.

An unauthorized journey into the makings of a cinematic saga unlike any other, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY exposes the stranger-than-fan-fiction journey of the franchise from the ground up. Through rigorous behind-the-scenes reporting and incisive cultural commentary, writer Barry Hertz’s ride-or-die epic details every single twist and turn of Fast & Furious drama, a quarter mile at a time. By the end, you will believe a car can fly.

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On Sale
Nov 11, 2025
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668651926

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Barry Hertz

About the Author

Barry Hertz is the award-winning Chief Film Critic for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, based in Toronto. Over the past two decades, he has reviewed thousands of movies, interviewed hundreds of actors and filmmakers, and covered every angle of the industry from festivals, sets, and markets around the world.

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