Wiseguy: The 25th Anniversary Edition

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 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.

Now with an introduction by Martin Scorcese.