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Hitmen – True Stories of Street Executions
Author(s): Wensley Clarkson (Author)
- Publisher: John Blake
- Publication Date: 18 April 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1904034527
- ISBN-13: 9781904034520
Book Description
Written by an investigative journalist, this book looks at professional killers, the people who hire them and those who die at their hands. Among the true stories described are: the story of the ultimate hitman, Carlos the Jackal, and how he was eventually brought to justice; the mother who hired a hitman to murder the wife of the son she could not bear to lose; and the story of Northern Ireland terrorist turned hitman Michael Boyle, whose hit on Jimmy Brindle, infamous South London criminal, was captured on camera by police as he tried to execute his plan.
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About the Author
WENSLEY CLARKSON has investigated numerous crimes across the world for the past thirty years. His research has included prison visits, surveillance operations, police raids and even post mortems.
Clarkson’s books – published in more than thirty countries – have sold more than two million copies. He has made numerous documentaries in the UK, US, Australia and Spain and written TV and movie screenplays. His most recent major TV project is Florida-based drama series
Boca Grande which he created, developed and wrote with BAFTA award-winning Peaky Blinders director David Caffrey. Clarkson’s recent book Sexy Beasts – about the Hatton Garden raid – was nominated for a Crime Writer’s Association Dagger award.
