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anntharai 's review for:
I Am a Hitman: The Real-Life Confessions of a Contract Killer
by Anonymous Hitman
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
This book is either an elaborate ruse, or a very strange book.
One of the first things anonymous does is to say he threatened everyone he worked with on the book with unaliving their families if anything could link back to iOS real identity. That kind of sets the tone.
If it is an elaborate ruse then the writer would have been better off publishing it as fiction, avoids the critical eye turned on every detail.
If it’s not a ruse, then the hitman writing it has spent a lot of time in therapy.
The reviews that criticise the writing aren’t wrong, but I listened to it on audiobook and not only did the narrator do an excellent job, but I think that’s actually the better format for this story - because it feels like a story being told to you in conversation down the pub.
There are things that don’t tally with UK reality - sneaking into morgues and extended stays in custody because they can’t find a magistrate etc. Things that might have been true in the 60s, 70s, or 80s but not much later. However, many of these things are explainable by the deliberate misrepresentation of time and locale to avoid identification.
Which, you know, if he did off all these people at the behest of variously powerful people then yeah I can see swapping an American life for a British one and the 70s for the 90s.
Which, you know, if he did off all these people at the behest of variously powerful people then yeah I can see swapping an American life for a British one and the 70s for the 90s.
Overall it was an interesting read. Not filled with gore, but brutal detail.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism