At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over one hundred, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The Iceman chronicles Kuklinski’s grisly career and exposes his murderous double life.
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“Smoothly written…Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings except toward his wife and three sons…A fast-paced, suspenseful re-creation of how a vicious killer was run to ground.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Smoothly written…Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings except toward his wife and three sons…A fast-paced, suspenseful re-creation of how a vicious killer was run to ground.”
“The Iceman chilleth! Not for the faint of heart but a rousing, riveting read. I read it in one (scary) gulp.”
“Bruno has done an excellent job of re-creating the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment.”
" Wasn't for me. I prefer either more fantasy or adventure but others may like. Wish the narration used different readers for different characters. "
Anthony Bruno, a crime writer, is the author of eleven crime fiction novels and four books of nonfiction true crime. He also wrote Seven, the novelization of the hit film starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. He was also a regular contributor to CrimeLibrary.com. His nonfiction work The Seekers: A Bounty Hunter's Story, was nominated for the Edgar Award in 2001 for best fact crime book. In 2004, a television movie adaptation of his novel Bad Apple was aired on TNT. A fourth-degree black belt, he studies and teaches the martial art aikido.
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
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