The Cunning of the Serpent - An Escaped Murderer's Wake of Terror (Paperback)

Joseph Anthony Mancini is a diabolical small-time career criminal from the East New York section of Brooklyn. The twenty-three-year-oldas virtual obscurity changes suddenly as he is abruptly catapulted into the national news limelight. The cunning, devil worshiping street thug graduates from his normal two-bit hustler persona and quickly becomes one of the nationas ten most wanted fugitives. The horrific events that unfold after this ruthless animal kills a cop in a thwarted robbery attempt on Long Island and subsequently escapes from jail thrusts Joey into a continuous and dangerously unrelenting game of cops and robbers. As the young fugitive leaves a path of death and carnage behind him, veteran cops charged with the responsibility to apprehend him are devastated, as their slick, innovative adversary seems to always be one step ahead of them. The sense of determination exhibited by the desperate fugitive is met with a literal army of cops, hell bent on one missiona]to stop Joey dead in his tracks. In this dramatic, action-packed novel, you will actually feel Mancinias rage as he kills to survive and you will absolutely feel the copsa astonishment and outrage time after time as Joey continues to miraculously elude capture. The reader is given the unique opportunity to take in the shocking series of events from two perspectivesa]the fugitiveas and the copsa.