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Homicide Is My Business: Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest For Honor
Homicide Is My Business: Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest For Honor
Homicide Is My Business: Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest For Honor
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Homicide Is My Business: Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest For Honor

Written by Jerry Schmetterer and Michael Vecchione

Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies

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The story of Luigi Ronsisvalle is an intimate look at the life of a professional killer. It is, in some ways, the story of all workingmen and women with ambition who never achieve their ultimate goal. But what makes Luigi unique is that, for him to achieve his goal, people had to die. His ambition, from when he was twelve years old, was to be a made man in the Mafia. He once told a presidential commission, "American child falls in love with baseball, I fall in love with Mafia."



Coauthor Michael Vecchione spent months interviewing the hitman about his life in the Sicilian and American Mafia, finally becoming his confidant. Those days, weeks, and months together brought Luigi to realize that, despite the concept of omertà—the code of silence ingrained in him from an early age—the road to a truly honorable life meant turning on those he once admired.



Luigi had done everything asked of him by his Mafia bosses. This included the murder of thirteen people. But unlike other hitmen, Luigi was denied the Mafia recognition he felt he deserved. Drawing on personal files, handwritten notes, and official sources, this book attempts to explain his complicated life.



Contains mature themes.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTantor Audio
Release dateNov 15, 2022
ISBN9781705227060
Homicide Is My Business: Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest For Honor
Author

Jerry Schmetterer

Jerry Schmetterer is an award winning print and broadcast journalist. Crooked Brooklyn is his fifth non-fiction book. He served for 12 years as the spokesman for the Kings County District Attorney's Office. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Emily.

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