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1 online resource (610 pages) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
A New York Times bestseller, the "chilling and compelling ... must-read" confessions of a mob hit man-and the riveting sequel of his most harrowing contract ( former FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco). Killer : The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, "Joey the Hit Man" was introduced to crime when he was just eleven years old. For the next thirty years he was a numbers king, scalper, loan shark, enforcer, and drug smuggler. He hijacked trucks, fenced stolen goods, and trafficked in pornography. But Joey really made his name as a Mafia assassin, racking up thirty-eight cold-blooded hits-thirty-five for cash, three for revenge. In this no-holds-barred account, he reveals the brutal truth of a life in organized crime. Hit #29 : In the fall of 1969, a public execution in a Brooklyn Italian restaurant earned Joey a mention in the New York Daily News and a twenty-grand payout from the mob. Next up: The bosses suspected their trusted numbers controller, Joe Squillante, was skimming the nightly bets to settle personal debts. But Squillante, aka Hit #29, was no clueless patsy and an unpredictable bull's-eye. Taking the job meant entering into a game of predator and prey as nerve-racking as the cock of a .38 hammer. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, David, author.
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Freading.
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| ISBN |
9781504054782 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9781504054782 |
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