Auteur: Joey the Hit Man

David Fisher is the author of more than twenty New York Times bestsellers, including, most recently, Leonard: My Fifty Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (2016), cowritten with William Shatner. In 1973, Fisher set the standard for organized crime memoirs as the coauthor, with « Joey the Hit Man,  » of the New York Times bestseller Killer: The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man. It was followed by the true crime classic Hit #29: Based on the Killer »s Own Account (1974), Joey the Hit Man »s blow-by-blow depiction of his most harrowing contract murder. Fisher lives in New York. « Joey the Hit Man » was a loan shark, numbers king, professional assassin, and the New York Times–bestselling author, with David Fisher, of Killer: The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man (1973) and Hit #29: Based on the Killer »s Own Account (1974).