GANGLAND : The Contract Killers

Softcover. SIGNED. The realm of the contract killer is a murky and murderous underworld where the price for the removal of a top villain is £100,000. A world where the killers range from Mafia to millionaires, from FBI informants to ordinary housewives; where the methods range from garrotting to shooting, induced overdoses to burning. Mostly the bodies are never found. In the latest addition to his 'Gangland' series, the author lifts the lid on the hidden world of the contract killer. Who are these people? How do the best of them commit untraceable crimes? Is the female more deadly than the male? And how true is it that the FBI, the police and other organisations devoted to solving crime have aided, abetted and even instigated contracts to kill? In answering these questions, James also provides in-depth accounts of the most famous, horrific and bizarre contract killers and reveals, sometimes in the words of the killers themselves, what happens when a contract killer passes his sell-by-date. The fortunate ones survive by switching sides and giving evidence. The less fortunate end up in places like Petak Island Prison near St. Petersburg, where there are no lavatories, no washing facilities - and no way out. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 344pp. trade size softcover. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON. Review copy with loosely inserted slip. As new with no creasing to covers.