The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by:
Philip Carlo (author)
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...
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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. 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…
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780312938840 (0312938845)
ASIN: 312938845
Publish date: April 28th 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages no: 505
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Biography Memoir,
True Crime,
True Story
I don't know what I expected from a mafia hit man, but the writing was just so bad I really couldn't bear it...
The book is quite good, it tells story of a serial killer with the nickname Iceman. It gives huge amount of information, interesting pieces of new perspective, quite strong and fast-paced, in some moments. However, it is also a little bit repetitive, many thoughts, descriptions or emotions (rather l...