{"product_id":"richard-kuklinski-and-the-business-vittorio-mancini-9798181992092","title":"Richard Kuklinski and the Business of Death: America's Most Notorious Contract Killer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe killed five men that prosecutors could prove. He claimed, on camera, to have killed two hundred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Kuklinski grew up in a Jersey City tenement where his father beat one son to death and called it an accident. By the time he was arrested in 1986, he was a quiet, unremarkable family man in suburban Dumont, New Jersey - the kind of neighbor nobody looked at twice. His wife thought he ran a wholesale business. His children never knew where the money came from. What investigators eventually proved was bad enough: men killed over cash deals, witnesses silenced with cyanide and a lamp cord, a body kept frozen in storage for over a year before it was finally found, ice still inside it on a warm September day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Kuklinski claimed afterward, across eighteen years of prison interviews and three HBO documentaries, was something else entirely - an independent hit man for every family in the mob, a hand in the deaths of Paul Castellano, Carmine Galante, even Jimmy Hoffa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe agents who built the case against him don't believe most of it. Neither does this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on trial records, investigative files, and the on-camera record Kuklinski left behind, Richard Kuklinski and the Business of Death separates the documented killer from the legend he spent his final years constructing - and asks why a man already facing four life sentences would bother inventing a bigger one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real story needed no exaggeration. It still doesn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vittorio Mancini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181992092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Vittorio Mancini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097368928511,"sku":"9798181992092","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-kuklinski-and-the-business-vittorio-mancini-9798181992092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}