The Mafia Chronicles: Autobiographies of a Mafia Hit Man

A New York Times bestseller, the ';chilling and compelling... must-read' confessions of a mob hit manand 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 hitsthirty-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.