"We've all read novelists and true crime writers who try to put you inside-the-mind-of-the-serial-killer, but I can't remember one that succeeded with the physical and psychological intimacy of this collaboration between the writer and the killer himself." - John Strausbausch, New York Press "An exceptionally well-told true crime tale." - Publishers Weekly, "Carlo effectively tells the life story of the family man who spent thirty years as a professional killer, while hosting barbecues in suburban New Jersey." - New York Post "This is a work written like a novel. highly recommended." - Library Journal Praise for THE NIGHT STALKER. Praise for THE ICE MAN: "Carlo effectively tells the life story of the family man who spent 30 years as a professional killer, while hosting barbecues in suburban New Jersey." -New York Post"This is a work written like a novel. Richard Kuklinski is now the subject of the major motion picture titled "The Iceman"(2013), starring James Franco, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans. Each Christmas found the Kuklinski home festooned in colorful lights each summer was a succession of block parties.
His daughter's medical condition meant regular stays in children's hospitals, where Kuklinski was remembered, not as a gangster, but as an affectionate father, extremely kind to children. Along the way, he married, had three children, and put them through Catholic school.
This trail of murder lasted over thirty years and took Kuklinski all over America and to the far corners of the earth, Brazil, Africa, and Europe. By his own estimate, he killed over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey.
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