19-year-old college student Mark Fisher couldn't wait to hit the Big
Town. Booze and decadent dreams of beautiful and willing women
filled the handsome footballer's mind. But Mark, from an affluent
suburb, was unaware of the dark side of New York City night life.
After becoming separated from his friends, Mark accepted an
invitation to a party from an attractive young lady. It would be the
last party of his life. Police found Fisher's beaten body riddled with
five bullet holes and dumped on a tree-lined Brooklyn street. For
more than a year top investigators worked around the clock to
penetrate the wall of silence that surrounded the tightly-knit
community where being seen as a "rat" was worse than any crime
- including murder. But detectives finally fingered the man who
pulled the trigger - the host of the party. John Guica was a
self-styled Tony Soprano wannabe whose gang of no-good punks
was little more than a neighbourhood laughingstock. But when the
perfect victim fell into their hands, Guica and his cohort blasted
their way to infamy - and twenty-five years to life in the harsh,
unforgiving hell of prison.
Town. Booze and decadent dreams of beautiful and willing women
filled the handsome footballer's mind. But Mark, from an affluent
suburb, was unaware of the dark side of New York City night life.
After becoming separated from his friends, Mark accepted an
invitation to a party from an attractive young lady. It would be the
last party of his life. Police found Fisher's beaten body riddled with
five bullet holes and dumped on a tree-lined Brooklyn street. For
more than a year top investigators worked around the clock to
penetrate the wall of silence that surrounded the tightly-knit
community where being seen as a "rat" was worse than any crime
- including murder. But detectives finally fingered the man who
pulled the trigger - the host of the party. John Guica was a
self-styled Tony Soprano wannabe whose gang of no-good punks
was little more than a neighbourhood laughingstock. But when the
perfect victim fell into their hands, Guica and his cohort blasted
their way to infamy - and twenty-five years to life in the harsh,
unforgiving hell of prison.
The book, which was released in July 2007, chronicles the murder of clean-cut college student Mark
Fisher by a gang of wannabe gangsters in Brooklyn in October 2003. Two young men were convicted of
gunning Fisher down for what the prosecution said was street credibility for their fledgling gang called
the Ghetto Mafia.
Fisher by a gang of wannabe gangsters in Brooklyn in October 2003. Two young men were convicted of
gunning Fisher down for what the prosecution said was street credibility for their fledgling gang called
the Ghetto Mafia.