The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer - Brossura

Carlo, Philip

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312938845 ISBN 13: 9780312938840

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2009

Riassunto

A top mafia hitman recounts his thirty-year career before landing in prison, describing his relationship with John Gotti, his assignments to kill more than two hundred victims, and his outside persona as a suburban family man. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Philip Carlo was the author of Gaspipe, The Butcher, and The Night Stalker, which chronicles the brutal career of serial killer Richard Ramirez. Carlo grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, amidst the world's highest concentration of Mafia members. When he was 16, Carlo was shot in the head in a gang war, and while recuperating, he read voraciously, discovering the magic of books for the first time. His intimate knowledge of Mafia culture—their walk and their talk—helped Carlo become a successful crime writer. He died in 2010 from ALS.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Husband and father. For thirty years, he led a double life—becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history. This is the true story of THE ICE MAN

He was Sammy the Bull Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano. John Gotti hired him to torture and kill his neighbor. A favorite among all the seven East Coast crime families, Richard "Ice Man" Kuklinski conducted his business with coldhearted intensity. By his own estimate, he murdered over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique.

"Carlo effectively tells the life story of the family man who spent thirty years as a professional killer, while hosting barbecues in suburban New Jersey."—New York Post

But behind Kuklinski's trail of murder was a traditional, loving, Catholic family. A married father of three, Kuklinski was always regarded as being especially kind to children; he threw summer block parties in his New Jersey neighborhood, and he was always generous around Christmastime. And before his crimes finally caught up with him, his family never suspected a thing...

"A hell of a book, a brutal page-turner."—Larry King

Su questa edizione

• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312938845
• ISBN 13: 9780312938840
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 523