title: The Hitman: The True Story of Murder, Redemption and the Melrose Diner
author: Ralph Cipriano
description: Ralph Cipriano is a former newspaper reporter for the Albany Times Union, Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer who now works as an author and freelance journalist. Hes won more than a dozen national and state journalism awards, including a 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism and a 2011 finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards. In a career that spans 36 years, hes exposed corruption in local governments, police departments and Ivy League football, as well as lavish spending by the Philadelphia archdiocese of the Catholic Church.
zlib_text: PAY THE HITMAN
  
  MILANA CHEERS
  
  Pay the Hitman © Milana Cheers 2020
  This is the copyright section of the book where you can find out if you have the right to copy it. The answer is No.
  This is also the section where I declare I wrote a work of fiction. Nothing is as it seems and similarities to real life anything is a
  coincidence. Lord help you break into Hitman’s warehouse.
  People who review my books and shout about them can quote, climb on my head and doodle hearts.
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Epilogue
  Meet the Boss Exclusive Teaser
  About the Author
  
  I
  C H A P T E R  1
  n the backwoods of Vermont, up the private driveway surrounded by evergreen trees,
  several miles from the job I closed this evening, I drive deliberately slowly because a
  dim light from my living room lamp shines between the open blinds. Someone is inside
  my safe house, and the idiot is practically telling me he’s there. What kind of amat