The Hitmen: The Shocking True Story of a Family of Killers for Hire

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It's competently but not amazingly well written and seems to suffer from a focus bias based on the author's sources. No 1 bestselling authors Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon have written an extraordinary account of a family business like no other. While [Neil] Bogart [of Casablanca] made himself wealthy and launched many hit acts, he was not a model businessman. But in 2017, Alan and Luke were both jailed over a ­Kinahan plot to murder Hutch figure Gary Hanley. amazing' Pat Kenny, Newstalk 'Riveting' Irish Times Meet the Wilsons - the deadliest family in crime Brothers Eric, Keith and John Wilson, their cousin Alan, and nephew Luke shared a trade - assassination.

The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to be a hitman – or woman. In some ways, Fred Dannen's rock-industry expose HIT MEN is less compelling than Marc Eliot's similar ROCKONOMICS: it covers only the 70s and 80s (with a bit of dirt about earlier eras) while Eliot surveys the entire history of the recording industry (through the late 80s).Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book was at its best when it focused on the larger-than-life personalities of the music industry in the 1970s and '80s, but when it got into excruciating and unnecessary detail on the minutiae of the business transactions, it lost me. Left winger Nolan Andrews thinks it's great that he can play hockey in Calgary, where his older brother, Nathan, is a star center for the Hitmen. Glorious lines of both narration and dialogue abound: "Geffen had advanced from one of the industry's top managers to one of its foremost label bosses. e. after the industry fell apart but pre-Spotify, and it didn't seem like things had changed much at that point.

An update explain the wrecking ball effect that Napster had and why nobody shed any tears for the large companies. Fredric Dannen and his loyal staff did a bang up job covering the various label bosses and their excesses.Fredric Dannen was a co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's 1986 Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. The work, by Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon, tells the story of how the Wilson clan — brothers John, Eric and Keith, their nephew Luke and cousin Alan — all became contract assassins. This book exposes the way record companies regularly cheat and scam their artists out of tens of thousands of dollars and the payola schemes of the 1980s.