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In the beginning
I have written two books in my life so far and am working on a third. "Hitter" is my crime genre book. "Prey Until Dawn" is of the horror genre. My third book is a sword-and-sorcery type and doesn't even have a working title just yet. This blog post is about my first book, "Hitter"
"Hitter" is the biography of a hitman. I can fancy the words up for you, but the life of a hitman covers it perfectly. Want to know how someone becomes a professional killer? Want to know what path leads you to become a hired gun? My book will show you. It's not pretty and it's not for everyone.
My book shows that the life-of-crime career starts as normally as any other. You grow up in the world, you see a few things, you learn a few things, and you meet a few people. Before you know it, it's like you've been a criminal your entire life and it all seems perfectly normal. My book only shows the path taken by one person, but that person could be any of us under the right circumstances.
"Hitter" is a work of fiction, but I call it fiction only to protect my confidential sources (and to protect myself from my sources). I have muddied the details just enough, but the story is real and true. Yes, I actually do have some friends that are professional criminals. Most of them are involved in smuggling, the moving of illegal items from place to place, but some of them provide illegal services, beating, torturing, killing, and kidnapping fall into the crime services category. I spoke to my sources at length and gathered together their life experiences to create my book. It's real.
So many crime-dramas are told from the side of the police, "Hitter" is told from the side of the criminal. You will never get closer to being inside the criminal mind than my book takes you. Criminals of a certain level don't speak freely to just anyone and I won't share the details about who I know or how I know them.
Too often, I hear laymen claiming how easy it is to live a criminal life, but that is based on pure ignorance. I am certain that most of you out there have a job. If you screw up at work, you might get fired. If you screw up at work and you are a criminal, you might get arrested, go to jail, be injured, be tortured, and/or be murdered. and, rightly or wrongly, your family could also face the same fate. It's hard for me to pretend that being beaten and murdered, or finding your family beaten and murdered, is easier than a job at the cracker factory.
Another misconception about the life of crime is the glamour. The life can bring you money, but you can't flaunt it since you cannot justify where it came from. There is very little that is glamorous about a true life of crime. You can't ever tell anyone the truth, you can't let people get close to you, you can't tell people about your background, and no one gets to meet your friends. Living a life of crime means wallowing in fear and paranoia most of the time.
"Hitter" doesn't sugarcoat the life of the criminal. You'll experience all the ups and downs, the desires and the regrets, the strains that a secret life puts on the body and mind.
The criminal life is not shiny and fancy like in the movies, it's just blood and mud. The highs can be spectacular, but the low points are shockingly low and dangerous. For some crimes, the police, and the family of the victim, will NEVER stop searching for you. Criminals never get to rest, so don't call it an easy life.
If you want to get closer, if you want to feel the vicarious thrill of what it's like to be a true criminal, read "Hitter".
"Hitter" is available at:
Amazon.com Print Edition (createspace program):
https://www.createspace.com/3864069
Amazon.com Print Edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Hitter-Daryn-R-...
Amazon.com Kindle edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Hitter-ebook/dp...
"Hitter" is the biography of a hitman. I can fancy the words up for you, but the life of a hitman covers it perfectly. Want to know how someone becomes a professional killer? Want to know what path leads you to become a hired gun? My book will show you. It's not pretty and it's not for everyone.
My book shows that the life-of-crime career starts as normally as any other. You grow up in the world, you see a few things, you learn a few things, and you meet a few people. Before you know it, it's like you've been a criminal your entire life and it all seems perfectly normal. My book only shows the path taken by one person, but that person could be any of us under the right circumstances.
"Hitter" is a work of fiction, but I call it fiction only to protect my confidential sources (and to protect myself from my sources). I have muddied the details just enough, but the story is real and true. Yes, I actually do have some friends that are professional criminals. Most of them are involved in smuggling, the moving of illegal items from place to place, but some of them provide illegal services, beating, torturing, killing, and kidnapping fall into the crime services category. I spoke to my sources at length and gathered together their life experiences to create my book. It's real.
So many crime-dramas are told from the side of the police, "Hitter" is told from the side of the criminal. You will never get closer to being inside the criminal mind than my book takes you. Criminals of a certain level don't speak freely to just anyone and I won't share the details about who I know or how I know them.
Too often, I hear laymen claiming how easy it is to live a criminal life, but that is based on pure ignorance. I am certain that most of you out there have a job. If you screw up at work, you might get fired. If you screw up at work and you are a criminal, you might get arrested, go to jail, be injured, be tortured, and/or be murdered. and, rightly or wrongly, your family could also face the same fate. It's hard for me to pretend that being beaten and murdered, or finding your family beaten and murdered, is easier than a job at the cracker factory.
Another misconception about the life of crime is the glamour. The life can bring you money, but you can't flaunt it since you cannot justify where it came from. There is very little that is glamorous about a true life of crime. You can't ever tell anyone the truth, you can't let people get close to you, you can't tell people about your background, and no one gets to meet your friends. Living a life of crime means wallowing in fear and paranoia most of the time.
"Hitter" doesn't sugarcoat the life of the criminal. You'll experience all the ups and downs, the desires and the regrets, the strains that a secret life puts on the body and mind.
The criminal life is not shiny and fancy like in the movies, it's just blood and mud. The highs can be spectacular, but the low points are shockingly low and dangerous. For some crimes, the police, and the family of the victim, will NEVER stop searching for you. Criminals never get to rest, so don't call it an easy life.
If you want to get closer, if you want to feel the vicarious thrill of what it's like to be a true criminal, read "Hitter".
"Hitter" is available at:
Amazon.com Print Edition (createspace program):
https://www.createspace.com/3864069
Amazon.com Print Edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Hitter-Daryn-R-...
Amazon.com Kindle edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Hitter-ebook/dp...
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