They Called Me a Hitman

Born into a communist family which he describes as a cult Mark Edmonds went on to study at the International Communist School in Moscow.His father Lloyd had fought against the army of the Spanish fascist Gen. Francisco Franco who launched a civil war in Spain against the popularly elected Republican government. But Mark chose to not live as a red rebel on the fringes of society. Instead he went out into the real world while keeping some of his inherited rebelliousness.He worked as a taxi driver in Melbourne and as a rookie journalist on a Communist party newspaper. He was a photographer bookshop owner and community radio program presenter. He ultimately achieved his dream career as a mechanical design engineer becoming a high-flying engineering project manager and family man. Eventually he earned the nickname hit man for protecting his employer's financial interests against the manipulations of a bullying construction site manager.Join the author as he looks back at how he escaped a political cult the people he's met and loved and those he's crossed swords with along the way.