BARBOZA Author:Joe Barboza with Hank Messick Every word of this book is true--though you'll wish it were fiction. — For years, Joseph Barboza was the most feared hit man in the underworeld. This handsome, hard-muscled ex-boxer was a supremely ruthless and successful professional killer in a human jungle where only the strongest, most savage and cunning could long survive. — This is his stor... more »y, told in his own words from a sanctuary given him by the authorities when he turned informer after learning that a contract was out on him. Set down with the collaboration of Hank Messick, America's #1 chronicler of crime, BARBOZA is the most complete ande uncompromising revelation of the criminal world and the criminal mind ever written. It is not a cops-and-robbers melodrama or a romantic fairy tale. It is a story of violence and sadism and sex and murder that will make you wince every raw page of the way.« less