Hit #29: Based on the Killer's Own Account

Joey the Hit Man · David Fisher

Jun 2017 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

The New York Times–bestselling author of Killer: The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man reveals the true story of his most harrowing contract murder.

“Joey the Hit Man” was a Bronx-born hired assassin who achieved widespread notoriety after writing a bestselling memoir and appearing on the David Susskind show. In this “down-to-earth realistic account,” Joey tells the riveting story behind the strangest of his thirty-eight kills (Los Angeles Free Press).
 
In the fall of 1969, a public execution in an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn earned Joey a mention in the New York Daily News and a twenty-grand payout from the mob. On the surface, his next job seemed just as routine: The bosses suspected their trusted numbers controller, Joe Squillante, was skimming the nightly bets to settle personal debts. Joey gave Squillante two weeks to live.
 
But there was one problem: Squillante once had a hit out on Joey too. No clueless patsy, #29 was an unpredictable bull’s-eye, and the contract holder was a dangerous mobster with a personal grudge against Joey. Taking the job meant entering into a game of predator and prey as nerve-racking as the cock of a .38 hammer.
 
From first tail to all-night stakeouts to the intricate planning of the final confrontation, this is the shockingly detailed first-person account of a professional hit. Full of twists, turns, and double crosses, Hit #29 “tells it like it is” and delivers an unforgettable insider’s view of the mob (Kirkus Reviews).
 

About the author

David Fisher is the author of more than twenty New York Times bestsellers, including, most recently, Leonard: My Fifty Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (2016), cowritten with William Shatner. In 1973, Fisher set the standard for organized crime memoirs as the coauthor, with “Joey the Hit Man,” of the New York Times bestseller Killer: The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man. It was followed by the true crime classic Hit #29: Based on the Killer’s Own Account (1974), Joey the Hit Man’s blow-by-blow depiction of his most harrowing contract murder. Fisher lives in New York.
 
“Joey the Hit Man” was a loan shark, numbers king, professional assassin, and the New York Times–bestselling author, with David Fisher, of Killer: The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man (1973) and Hit #29: Based on the Killer’s Own Account (1974).