cleveland publishers 1931

What creates a hired killer? Were morals absent to begin with, or are they lost along the journey?
A young man witnesses his life become a wreck as he sells his struggling small business and goes to work for a supplier. While there, he witnesses a world of corruption and violence that he would have never believed possible,  and his employers guide him into the career of a knuckle-breaking thug first, and then a skilled and efficient  hitman before he knows whats happening. He decides that the only way to escape is to become the best hired killer that he can be, minimize his mistakes and use his skills on his employers to gain his freedom and reunite with his new wife and unborn child. "A modern Shelley's Frankenstein - with a lot more gun play".