The Last Hitman
A Novel
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
Marked for death, a hitman must figure out how to save himself and exact a final revenge before his past catches up to him.
Perfect for fans of Eli Cranor and Tulsa King, this thrilling mafia tale shows what happens when loyalty isn’t a two-way street.
There was a time when being a “made man” meant something. Angelo Cipriani was a member of the inner circle of the powerful Fortunato Crime Family, which controlled the Upper Ohio Valley. Of course, Angelo would never admit that such an organization existed, let alone to all of the bodies he dropped for his boss. Angelo was a loyal soldier, even after a rival family strafed him with bullets and put him in a coma for three weeks.
But times have changed. Four decades have passed, and the glory days of mob rule have waned. As drugs replace the mob’s traditional revenue streams and the FBI looks to bring down the Fortunatos, Angelo finds himself on the outside with the current administration, essentially, “on the shelf.” He spends his days pining over a waitress at the local diner and reminiscing with a one-legged former colleague in a nursing home.
Angelo was a man of honor in a world that he now barely recognizes.
But when the FBI shows up, Angelo realizes the past is far from dead and buried. Faced with old secrets and fresh betrayals, Angelo finds himself unretired: The Last Hitman is ready to get back to work.
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In Yocum's electrifying if familiar latest (after The Sacrifice of Lester Yates), semiretired contract killer Angelo Cipriani's attempts to live a quiet life are complicated by pressure to rat on his former accomplices. Raised in a poor immigrant household in Steubenville, Ohio, in the 1960s, Angelo never expected to make it beyond the local steel mill. However, his street smarts and work ethic caught the eye of mafioso Alphonse Fortunato, who took Angelo under his wing, offering him steady work and a path to rise within the organization for nearly 40 years. Now—after being pushed out of the family by its new leader, Little Tommy, who pivoted operations to the drug trade against Angelo's wishes—Angelo spends his mornings at a local diner, nursing coffee and pining for Carolyn, a waitress he's too shy to ask out. When an FBI agent blackmails Angelo into informing on Little Tommy and the rest of the family, he must weigh a lifetime of loyalty against his hope of a future with Carolyn. With brisk pacing and cliff-hangers galore, Yocum's mafia tale excites, even if its twists and betrayals are somewhat predictable. Still, this is sure to get readers' blood pumping.