Author: Fredric Dannen Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307802086 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 433
Book Description
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.
Author: John Perkins Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1576755126 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 430
Book Description
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Author: Lawrence Block Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061796689 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.
Author: Rex Feral Publisher: ISBN: 9780873642767 Category : Criminal methods Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
Rex Feral kills for hire. Some consider him a criminal. Others think him a hero. In truth, he is a lethal weapon aimed at those he hunts. He is a last recourse in these times when laws are so twisted that justice goes unserved. He is a man who feels no twinge of guilt at doing his job. He is a professional killer. Learn how a pro gets assignments, creates a false identity, maizes a disposable silencer, leaves the scene without a trace, watches his mark unobserved and more. Feral reveals how to get in, do the job and get out without getting caught.
Author: John Perkins Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1626566755 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back. The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men. John Perkins wrote that they are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. In Perkins's case the tool was debt-convincing strategically important countries to borrow huge amounts of money for enormous, development projects that served the very rich while driving the country deeper into poverty and debt. And once indebted, these countries could be controlled. In this latest edition, Perkins provides revealing new details about how he and others did their work. But more importantly, in an explosive new section he describes how the EHM tools are being used around the world more widely than ever-even in the U. S. itself. The cancer has metastasized, yet most people still aren't aware of it. Fear and debt drive the EHM system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The EHM system-employing false economics, bribes, surveillance, deception, debt, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power-has become the dominant system of economics, government, and society today. It has created what Perkins calls a Death Economy. But Perkins offers hope: he concludes with dozens of specific, concrete suggestions for actions all of us can take to wrest control of our world away from the economic hit men, and help give birth to a Life Economy.
Author: David Foster Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439103062 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
"Hit Man" is the story of Foster's triumphant four decades in the tumultuous music industry--with 45 Grammy nominations, four wins, and three Oscar nominations. 8 pages of b&w photographs.
Author: Brian Hughes Publisher: Milo Books Ltd ISBN: Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Thomas Hearns ranks as one of the greatest and most exciting fighters of all-time. From his explosion onto the pro boxing scene with seventeen straight knockouts, he struck fear into opponents and awe into spectators. He went on to feature in some of the most thrilling bouts ever and became the first champion to win six titles at different weights. He will forever be known by his chilling nickname: the "Hit Man". Co-written by Brian Hughes, Britain's leading boxing trainer, Hit Man delves inside this complex, charismatic character to present a compelling portrait of a modern sports legend. Reviews 'Compelling.' -- DAILY STAR 'One of the best biographies of a professional fighter since 'Unforgiveable Blackness'. A must read for all boxing fans.' -- SADDOBOXING.COM 'A fine tribute to a great, great fighter.' -- DUBLIN EVENING HERALD 'The Hit Man unleashed.' -- THE RING 'An engrossing book on a thrilling fighter.' -- BOXING MONTHLY
Author: Martin Corona Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101984627 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life. Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. That work continued until the arrest of Javier Arellano-Félix in 2006 in a huge coordinated DEA operation. Martin Corona played a key role in the downfall of the cartel when he turned state's evidence. He confessed to multiple murders. Special Agent of the California Department of Justice Steve Duncan, who wrote the foreword, says Martin Corona is the only former cartel hit man he knows who is truly remorseful. Martin's father was a US Marine. The family had many solid middle-class advantages, including the good fortune to be posted in Hawaii for a time during which a teenage Martin thought he might be able to turn away from the outlaw life of theft, drug dealing, gun play, and prostitution. He briefly quit drugs and held down a job, but a die had been cast. He soon returned to a gangbanging life he now deeply regrets. How does someone become evil, a murderer who can kill without hesitation? This story is an insight into how it happened to one human being and how he now lives with himself. He is no longer a killer; he has asked for forgiveness; he has made a kind of peace for himself. He wrote letters to family members of his victims. Some of them not only wrote back but came to support him at his parole hearings. It is a cautionary tale, but also one that shows that evil doesn't have to be forever.
Author: Nathan Sommers Publisher: Nathan Sommers ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Blake Reed is BlackHawk's deadliest weapon. For years the agency has used violence to ensure that the enemies of America are kept in check. Despite years of loyal service, Blake finds himself on the run from BlackHawk after they order his assassination. Join Blake as he uncovers a deadly plot at the heart of the US government. With political violence spreading across the nation, can Blake stop a terror attack that will tip the country into civil war. Fans of Terminal List and The Gray Man are sure to love Nathan Sommers's new book, HIT MAN.
Author: Howie Carr Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429992115 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 465
Book Description
The radio talk show host sensation and crime reporter delivers a portrait of gangster Johnny Martorano, whose life inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. With a new epilogue detailing Whitey Bulger’s dramatic June 2011 capture For two decades Johnny Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty mob murders—for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Howie Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and at the flamboyant city of Boston which Martorano so ruthlessly ruled. A plethora of paradoxes, Johnny Martorano was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Surrounded by fast-living politicians, sports celebrities, and show biz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful—as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end . . . a hitman. “Howie Carr weaves a frightening tale of unlawful conduct, and it’s all true.” —Bill O’Reilly “The indictments of mobster-mangled Boston continue to rain down in Howie Carr’s superb new true-crime book, Hitman. It’s horrifying, it’s deadpan shocking, it’s a brilliant treatise on criminal psychopathy and a portrait of a city defined and subverted by hoodlums run amok. Read this book—it will grab you, garrotte you, and leave you gasping for breath.” —James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author of L.A. Confidential
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