The first deeply reported look inside the surprising history and unstoppable future of the film industry's most unlikely blockbuster—the Fast & Furious franchise—a series that uncannily anticipated the shifting moods and demands of pop culture while changing the business of global entertainment at the same time.

What do Miami drug traffickers, bloodthirsty Yakuza warriors, Corona-soaked family BBQs, Oscar winner Helen Mirren, and a duct-taped 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 mega-franchise: the most entertaining, outlandish, and secretly genius Hollywood success story that everyone has taken for granted—until now. Through a series of high-risk maneuvers – from synapse-stretching stunts and timeline-bending narratives to controversial VFX innovations and explosive PR wars between the biggest, baddest, baldest egos in Hollywood—the Fast & Furious family (and it is a family above all else) has redefined the art and commerce of popcorn entertainment. And they did it all while the film industry was rocked by the most tectonic changes in its entire history.

An unauthorized journey into the making of a cinematic saga unlike any other, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY will expose the stranger-than-fan-fiction history of the outlandishly explosive F&F universe from the ground up. Through fresh and rigorous reporting, this ripped-from-the-road read will detail every single mile of F&F drama.