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Confessions of a Mob Hitman

Author : Ray Flynn
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633380017
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Mob Hitman written by Ray Flynn and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, an inside look at mob warfare in greater St. Louis by one of the men who actually lived it…and shaped it. It is an explosive, first person account…for the first time! John Auble, Reporter Fox Television- St. Louis Aficionados of true crime history and/or human nature will enjoy this journey into the past as gangster Ray Flynn recalls a life that he clearly feels was well-lived. You may disagree with the well-lived part, but it was an interesting life. No doubt about that. Bill McLellan St. Louis Post Dispatch Columnist Ray Flynn reached the pinnacle of his career in the 1960’s when he joined the Buster Eortman Gang. Wortman began his career as one of the infamous Al Capone’s southern lieutenants and as Capone’s cellmate. Wortman eventually won a bloody gang war for control of St. Louis and southern Illinois. Michale Flynn Son of the author Ray Flynn

Confessions of a Mob Hitman

Author : Raymond H. Flynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606530139
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Mob Hitman written by Raymond H. Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, an inside look at mob warfare in St. Louis by one of the men who actually lived it - shaped it. It's an explosive, first-person account - for the first time! Mike Flynn fulfills his father's dream to have the memoirs made public. And, Mike shares some touching insight into a side of gangland history we seldom see. In doing so he proves that, no matter what, there is always something worthwhile in every human being. That, it appears, is Ray Flynn's true legacy!

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

Author : Martin Corona
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101984627
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man written by Martin Corona and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Ice Man

Author : Philip Carlo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312938845
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Ice Man written by Philip Carlo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo presents a harrowing account of Richard Kuklinski, a seemingly ordinary husband and father who was also a cold-blooded killer for hire--the man the Mafia called on when they wanted a special kind of hit. Martin's Press.

Joey the Hitman

Author : David Fisher
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560253938
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Joey the Hitman written by David Fisher and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings back the New York Times bestseller (originally published as Killer) that helped pave the way for the latest generation of nouveau-mob stories, from Donnie Brasco to The Sopranos. "Joey"—a journeyman Jewish hitman, numbers king, and loan shark—collaborated with David Fisher (co-editor of the hit Adrenaline title Wild Blue) to lay out the rackets in gripping detail. His story includes detailed accounts of his chillingly "professional" murders of thirty-eight victims. The strong sales of Mob are further evidence that the best mafia stories—and this is one of the best—capture the public's interest. Joey the Hitman's original best-seller status reflects the quality of the writing, the frank intelligence of the subject/writer, and Joey's convincingly matter-of-fact, regular-guy tone. When he writes, debunking The Godfather, "... Actually very few mob members even have Bronx-Italian accents ... a lot of mob people are not very tough, the people we meet and deal with are very ordinary, most of us stay home at night and watch TV, and we only shoot each other when absolutely necessary," you know you're listening to the original Soprano. This edition includes a new afterword from David Fisher, who for the first time reveals Joey's identity and the incredible story of how Joey finally died.

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626566755
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it. Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago. As dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

The Dead Line

Author : T. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Line written by T. Powell and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DEAD LINE... CONFESSIONS of a DIXIE MAFIA ASSASSINAN INVESTIGATIVE MEMOIRT. A. POWELL "Not everyone who dies rests in peace...and not everyone who rests in peace remains silent!" That's something the souls of the dead say the Dixie Mafia of the golden Gulf coast has apparently forgotten after 52 years. Wallowing under the misguided mysteries of a broken family and the Mississippi mud that slogged through their veins, the indomitable daughter of slain Lt. Dan Anderson, Phyllis Anderson Cook, and Investigative Forensics author Powell are ready to expose newfound evidence about the previously known and unknown participants of the Cornbread Cabal's two greatest murders of revenge: the infamous night of the Buford and Pauline Pusser ambush on the Mississippi/Tennessee state line and the assassination of Gulfport, Mississippi's Judge Vincent Sherry and his politically active wife, Margaret. With never before revealed first-hand, eye witness testimonials and fact patterned evidence, the investigative author has been able to provide a plausible and corroborative segue to the mystery men of the Gulf coasts' sinister history that the public has casually forgotten but spirit has not.Led by the ethereal soul of Dixie Mafia maven and victim, "Calamity Jane", whose own murder begged to be solved; Powell has used both investigative forensics skill sets and the shorthand of the dead to assist Cook in connecting the dots between the 'alleged suicides' of her father and brother to the graveside guardians of local law enforcement, who were hired by the Dixie Mafia to ensure their silence about the nights the lights went out in Mississippi. In tandem with dedicated field researchers and Dixie Mafia victims brave enough to step forward, forensically based discoveries have been made by Powell that supports the supposition of assassination for her client's youngest brother and Dixie Mafia embedded father. But neither psychic medium detective, nor Cook were satisfied with just providing segue...they wanted justice and it came from the most unlikely source! Unable to rest in the Mississippi mire, the spirit of "Calamity Jane" came through time and again to describe her killers, her place of burial and the dirty cops that watched her killers destroy her headstone to hide her final resting place and the criminal activities they were all involved in. Unearthing new facts through once overlooked family photographs, countless documents, eye-witness testimonies and hours of undercover and unpublished podcast sessions/interviews, both Powell and Cook have built an undeniable dossier of formidable truth. Victims who wish to remain anonymous until the public steps forward and demands justice from its local, state and federal governments...along with their respective political representatives demand their voices to be heard...even if from beyond the grave!T. A. Powell

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576755126
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

I Heard You Paint Houses

Author : Charles Brandt
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586422383
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book I Heard You Paint Houses written by Charles Brandt and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller — #1 True Crime Bestseller The inspiration for the major motion picture, THE IRISHMAN. “The best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all.” — Steven Van Zandt “Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery.” — Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa “Sheeran’s confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery.” — Michael Baden M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York “It’s all true.” — New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joe Coffey “Gives new meaning to the term ‘guilty pleasure.’’’ — The New York Times Book Review **Includes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's confessions to the killings of Jimmy Hoffa and Joey Gallo. "I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. He also provided intriguing information about the Mafia's role in the murder of JFK. Sheeran learned to kill in the US Army, where he saw an astonishing 411 days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino. Eventually Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit the US government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission of La Cosa Nostra, alongside the likes of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, the Irishman did the deed, knowing that if he had refused he would have been killed himself. Charles Brandt's page-turner has become a true crime classic.

I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse

Author : Michael Franzese
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1595554270
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse written by Michael Franzese and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a one-time mob boss teach you about how to run a business? I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse, written by a former member of the Colombo crime family, promises an insider's view of the mob that will change the way you do business forever. The first thing you'll learn? Get a plan, work it hard, be smart, and surround yourself with people who know how to help you reach your goals--people like Michael Franzese. At the height of his involvement in the mafia, Franzese ran rackets that earned him millions of dollars every week. After serving his time, Franzese quit the mob and dedicated his life to making a positive impact on the world by sharing what he's learned along the way. Now, he's a consultant who has helped everyone from high-powered executives to small business owners learn how to make the most out of their businesses--and, more importantly, how to do it honestly. As one of the few who quit the mob and lived to tell his story, Franzese has a unique perspective on how the mafia does business. Packed with hard-won experience, street smarts, and just a pinch of philosophy, I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse shares the professional advice (and the life lessons) that Franzese learned firsthand, including: The importance of cutting to the chase The value of having a good crew How to start learning from your failures The danger of bending the rules How to come out ahead in your negotiations Why you should lead with your brain instead of your mouth How to think about real success Business is business. Let your friend Franzese give you a tip or two about how to run yours better.

Cullotta

Author : Dennis N. Griffin
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 0929712455
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Cullotta written by Dennis N. Griffin and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organised lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end, that information was his ticket out of crime, as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program.

Gaspipe

Author : Philip Carlo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061835781
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Gaspipe written by Philip Carlo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"—concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York—fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally caught up with him in 1994, Casso became the thing he hated most—an informer. From his blood feud with John Gotti to his dealings with the "Mafia cops," decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, to the Windows case, which marked the beginning of the end for the New York Mob, Gaspipe is Anthony Casso's shocking story—a roller-coaster ride into an exclusive netherworld that reveals the true inner workings of the Mafia, from its inception to the present time.

When the Bullet Hits the Bone

Author : Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684566452
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book When the Bullet Hits the Bone written by Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Raimondi was born into a world that most people would never venture into or experience or be part of. He was born into the world of organized crime. In this book, he tells of rampant corruption, payoffs, and bribes and of treachery and deceit and assassinations in the Vatican and of the biggest heist in mob history. Look for Part 2 - When the Bullet Hits the Bone : The Dead Don't Walk

I Am a Hitman

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1802790470
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book I Am a Hitman written by Anonymous and published by Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don’t even realize. He’s been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional assassin has never been easy. There have been close calls, failed attempts and a lot of looking over his shoulder. And now, he has decided to come clean and seek atonement for his life as a murderer and one of the most covertly dangerous men alive. An account of a life lived between our world and a shadowy underworld of criminals, a life lived under the radar of the law, a life lived in death. This is the true story of a hitman.

The Rise and Fall of a 'Casino' Mobster

Author : Dennis Griffin
Publisher : Wildblue Press
ISBN 13 : 9781942266952
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of a 'Casino' Mobster written by Dennis Griffin and published by Wildblue Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago organized crime family known as the 'Outfit' dates back to the reign of the infamous Al Capone and prohibition. As the years passed and prohibition was repealed, Outfit bosses had to adapt and seek new ways to make money illegally. One of those was the expanding gambling and entertainment oasis in the desert: Las Vegas. A lot of cash passed through the Vegas casinos and the mobsters devised a way to get some of it, using a process that came to be known as 'the skim.' To protect their interests, the Outfit sent an enforcer to Sin City in 1971 He was to make sure their casino operations ran smoothly and deal with interlopers, employees who were skimming the skim and other troublemakers, by any means necessary. His name was Tony Spilotro. To help him run his empire Tony imported several heavies from Chicago. Among them was his childhood friend Frank Cullotta, who would function as Tony's street lieutenant. His assignment was to assemble a crew of thieves, arsonists and killers to provide muscle for Tony as necessary, and carry out lucrative burglaries that Tony brought to their attention. Frank and his crew were dubbed by the news media as the Hole in the Wall Gang. The Spilotro era in Vegas was dramatized in the 1995 blockbuster movie Casino, in which Joe Pesci played a character based on Spilotro. Character actor Frank Vincent played 'Frankie' based on Frank Cullotta. The real Frank Cullotta was a technical consultant to the film and appeared in several scenes as a hit man. As screenwriter Nick Pileggi said, 'Without Frank Cullotta there would have been no Casino.' In 'The Rise and Fall' of Tony Spilotro, Frank tells the true story of Tony Spilotro, his rise up the ladder to become an Outfit boss, his subsequent fall from power and murder at the hands of the Outfit. Frank also talks about the many murders Tony committed, ordered or planned. In several instances Frank names the killers in cases that are officially unsolved. It's a story that only Frank Cullotta could tell.

The Iceman

Author : Anthony Bruno
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0345540093
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Iceman written by Anthony Bruno and published by Dell. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun, for money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials knew all about Kuklinski and had a list of his victims, but couldn’t get near him—until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. In this harrowing true-crime account, Anthony Bruno delves into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, chronicling the Iceman’s grisly crimes and probing the bizarre dynamics of Agent Polifrone’s dangerous liaison with him. For as Polifrone carefully built up a case against Kuklinksi, he knew he was running out of time—because the Iceman was planning to kill him too. “Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings.”—Kirkus Reviews “Excellent . . . [re-creates] the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment.”—Publishers Weekly

Underboss

Author : Peter Maas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060930969
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Underboss written by Peter Maas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-01-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.