The IceMan by Anthony Bruno: @nd Quarter SSR Book

The book I read as my 2nd quarter SSR book was The Iceman by Anthony Bruno. The book is a biography about the ruthless killer Richard Kuklinski. Kuklinski was know for freezing one of his victims (Louis Masgay) in order to disguise the time of death which gave him the name "IceMan". His first murder was in 1948 at the age of 13 when he beat his victim to death with a pole due to being bullied by him and his friends. When he was convicted of five murders in 1988 he took credit for 200 other murders he had committed as well. The one whom helped take this killer down was my favorite character Special Agent Dominick Polifrone. He is my favorite character because he went face to face with a cold-blooded killer and was able to maintain his cool around him in all scenarios. It took him years in order to even get close enough to talk to him and when he did he had control over the situation. Polifrone is a dynamic character and I think that helped the story become better because by the end of it the he was able to over come his fear of the IceMan. At the beginning he wasn't as confident about getting to Kuklinski as he was at the end of the story, although his nervousness never went way. Throughout the biography Richard was killing his own people because he no longer trusted them, so Polifrone was kind of feeling that cydaine was going to be in his food next just like Gary Smith. Smith was part of the Percy House Gang, he was poisoned and strangled because he no longer wanted to be in the gang. Everyone thought he would snitch so they wanted him dead, Richard knew just how to do it mess free. For twenty-one years Dominick was audio taping everything the IceMan told him from how to kill someone with cydaine and how he killed some people with cydaine. When it was time for Kuklinski's arrest they used all of that information against which helped win the case. Dominick Polifrone was asked to comment on the IceMan's future he responded with, "For twenty-one years the first thing I saw at night before I shut my eyes and the first thing I saw in the morning when I opened them was Richard Kuklinski's face. But now, for the rest of his life, every time Richie goes to bed at night and every time he wakes up in the morning, hes gonna be seeing mine." Furthermore, Richard would've never been caught if it wasn't for Dominick's bravery, due to that Richard was not eligible for parole until he was 111 years of age. That is why Dominick Polifrone is my favorite character him and his team locked up a cold-blooded killer.