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
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