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How To Hire A Hitman . . . Tiger King Made It Look All Too Easy
Why You Should Never Hire An Assassin
Anyone who’s watched Tiger King knows that all you really need to hire a hitman is a poorly paid underling with loose morals in need of extra cash. However a few years ago I was shocked to find how many people sought out these would-be hitmen. And not always for the reasons people think.
In 2007 I was asked to write a Christmas-book-for-men called How To Drive a Tank . . . and Other Everyday Tips for the Modern Gentleman (a bit of a mouthful to be sure). And in that I had to write a tongue-in-cheek chapter called How To Hire A Hitman, which also appeared on my old author blog.
From that blog post I started to receive regular requests to kill people, to have people killed or to help people commit suicide, either via email or comments on the post. Obviously I never posted these requests and if I came across someone who wanted to commit suicide I contacted them and gave them the appropriate helplines for their country.
Here are some of those requests (made anonymous), the saddest was always the following:
SUICIDE BY HITMAN
“Will some1 please kill me for 400 Pound (approx $500) up front and 2400 ($3000) after death i will hold the money and…
