HITMEN FOR HIRE

<p>When you next sit down at your local coffee shop look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book the ‘upper world’ sails perilously close to the underworld.</p><p><strong>HITMEN FOR HIRE</strong> takes the reader on a journey like no other navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen) informers rogue policemen taxi bosses gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm looking at who arranges hits where to find a hitman and even what it is like to be a hitman – or woman.</p><p>Since 1994 South Africa has witnessed some spectacular underworld killings associated with various industries and sectors. Drawing on over a thousand cases from 2000 to 2016 Shaw reveals how these murders have an outsized impact on the evolution of both legal and illegal economic activity.</p>