In 1989 Las Vegas private investigator Lake Headley was approached via a journalist by a prisoner in a federal correction facility who wanted to tell his story. What emerged, after the authors had travelled long distances to check and verify what they had heard, was this account of 45 years as a freelance Mafia hitman. Among his revelations Donald (Tony the Greek) Frankos tells how he had killed six men before he was 25, specializing in hits that the Mafia considered too risky; how his spells in prison revealed life there to be as dangerous as life on the streets; of his friends and associates such as Carlo Gambino, Joey Gallo and Fat Tony Salerno; and of the circumstances of Jimmy Hoffa's mysterious end in 1975.