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The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
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This is more about the undercover investigation of the Iceman. A lot of the conversations are "you got the stuff?" "not yet. you got the coke?" "no. you got the cyanide?" "no". I understand an investigation like this would be a lot of back and forth, them doing this strange dance to get information on one another, but so much of it became filler.
What is also filler is just letting Richard Kuklinski go on about all these killings. A majority of them don't have any proof, like him saying he worked for and killed Roy DeMeo. It's not as bad as the Carlo book, where Kuklinski is a superhero hitman. Instead this book turns Mr. Softee into the superhero hitman who uses RC cars with explosives and travels the world with Kuklinski doing hits. This isn't to say this book doesn't include a whole chapter of just taking Kuklinski's word for a whole heap of murders.
From his Wikipedia: "In 2006, Paul Smith, a member of the task force involved in arresting Kuklinski � and later a supervisor of the organized crime division of the New Jersey Attorney General's office � said: "I checked every one of the murders Kuklinski said he committed, and not one was true.""
I do need to say the beginning with Kuklinski's first kill when he was a kid (maybe not factual) is a compelling read.
What is also filler is just letting Richard Kuklinski go on about all these killings. A majority of them don't have any proof, like him saying he worked for and killed Roy DeMeo. It's not as bad as the Carlo book, where Kuklinski is a superhero hitman. Instead this book turns Mr. Softee into the superhero hitman who uses RC cars with explosives and travels the world with Kuklinski doing hits. This isn't to say this book doesn't include a whole chapter of just taking Kuklinski's word for a whole heap of murders.
From his Wikipedia: "In 2006, Paul Smith, a member of the task force involved in arresting Kuklinski � and later a supervisor of the organized crime division of the New Jersey Attorney General's office � said: "I checked every one of the murders Kuklinski said he committed, and not one was true.""
I do need to say the beginning with Kuklinski's first kill when he was a kid (maybe not factual) is a compelling read.
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September 10, 2024
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