 |
|
|
|
|
List Price: $14.95 |
-
Paperback: 440 pages
Year September 18, 2007
-
ISBN-10: 0312374658
|
|
|
Our Price: $12.95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Authors, Publishers:
Click
here
to send recent updates about this page or to submit a new title. |
|
|
|
|
Description: |
This stomach-turning account of the multiple atrocities committed over 43
years by Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski—as sadistic a killer as most
readers would ever want to encounter in print—seems like more of an
as-told-to than an independent journalistic narrative, though Carlo says
that he verified Kuklinski's accounts where possible. But rather than
critically assess Kuklinski's largely self-serving tales of his roles in
such major mob killings as those of Jimmy Hoffa and Gambino boss Paul
Castellano, Carlo (The Night Stalker) seems to accept them.
Instead of applying objective insight into how such a murderer—who
researched methods that would prolong his victims' suffering—came to be,
the author presents instead chapter after chapter of Kuklinski summarily
killing criminals he was hired to eliminate or randomly gunning down
someone on the street to test out a new weapon. By disregarding the
questions raised by Mafia experts such as Jerry Capeci about Kuklinski's
credibility, Carlo has fumbled an opportunity. Sloppy errors (e.g., Rudy
Giuliani served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York,
not the Eastern District) also detract from the book, which ends with a
bizarre invitation to the reader to write to Kuklinski at the Trenton
State Prison. (July 11)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved. |
|
|
|
Also:
|
|
