Confessions of a cartel hitman /

Originally published: New York: Dutton.

Martin Corona is a multiple murderer who has admitted to killing at least 8 people. Over a period of 16 months during his cartel hit man career, in three separate incidents, one family lost a son, a son-in-law and nearly lost two daughters. A 9-year-old girl witnessed her mother and aunt being shot by Corona in San Diego. A month later, while visiting her father and grandmother in Tijuana, she witnessed Corona and his crew bust into her father's home, tie her and her grandmother up, take her father upstairs and beat him to death. These murders were brutal and cruelly efficient. Corona's gang would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. In this book, Martin's shocking first-hand confessions illuminate his descent from dealing drugs at the age of 12 to theft, guns and prostitution.