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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 omertthe code of silence ingrained in him from an early agethe 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