The Hitman: The True Story of Murder, Redemption and the Melrose Diner

by Ralph Cipriano

Overview

How a poor kid from South Philly became a Mafia hit man, survived three gunshots to the head to become a federally protected witness who brought down the Philly mob ... and then reinvented himself as a wildly successful car salesman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781470172091
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/03/2012
Pages:	147
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ralph Cipriano is a former newspaper reporter for the Albany Times Union, Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer who now works as an author and freelance journalist. He's won more than a dozen national and state journalism awards, including a 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism and a 2011 finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards. In a career that spans 36 years, he's exposed corruption in local governments, police departments and Ivy League football, as well as lavish spending by the Philadelphia archdiocese of the Catholic Church.