Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action.

Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.

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• Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
• A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
• Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia - A True Story by FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone
• The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
• The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run
• Red Harvest
• Strangers on a Train
• Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run
• Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia