**Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans** **Π** **He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.** A mob contract killer known as Π²ΠΡThe IcemanΠ²ΠΡ for hiding a body in an ice-cream
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
β Scribed by Bruno, Anthony
- Book ID
- 107338952
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780345540096
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β¦ Synopsis
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans
He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.
A mob contract killer known as "The Iceman" for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun, for money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials knew all about Kuklinski and had a list of his victims, but couldn't get near him--until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse.
In this harrowing true-crime account, Anthony Bruno delves into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, chronicling the Iceman's grisly crimes and probing the bizarre dynamics of...
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