{ "item_title" : "Hit #29", "item_author" : [" "], "item_description" : "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). ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers2/ebook/84/60/9781504046084_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "10.04", "our_price" : "10.04", "club_price" : "10.04", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "club_savings_amt" : "0", "club_savings_pct" : "0" } }

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