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Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors is a book written under the pseudonym Rex Feral and published by Paladin Press in 1983. Paladin Press owner Peder Lund claimed, in an interview with 60 Minutes, that the book started life as a detailed crime novel written by a Florida housewife, and that the format was later changed to appeal to Paladin's reader base accustomed to the ...
A hitman, on the other hand, is a term that is often synonymous with contract killer although it can also be used to denote a criminal who frequently carries out a targeted killing (referred to as a "hit") on behalf of an organized crime syndicate to which they are affiliated with.
The site also had a form where people can request hit man services and apply to work as a hired killer. Garcia submitted a resume, unaware that the site was not a "legitimate" hit-man recruitment ...
Hit Man is a remarkable, ingeniously sly work of fiction. But it's also inspired by and dedicated to the real Gary Johnson, who worked as a staff investigator for the Harris County district ...
A common example of a proxy murder would be a person contracting a hit man, [2] or a hired killer. Hit men commit the act of murder on a specific target or targets, and may receive payment in exchange for the murder or murders committed. This is what is known as contract killing. [3]
In 'Griselda,' Alberto Guerra plays Dario, the rare hitman with a heart. He tells Men's Health how he transformed into the character alongside Sofia Vergara.
Hitman: Enemy Within, a novel by William C. Dietz; Hit Man, a novel by Lawrence Block; Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, a 1983 book by Rex Feral; Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business, an exposé of the music industry by Fredric Dannen