To save his own life, Hill turns into a Federal witness, and the mob is to this day still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, the six-million dollar Lufthansa heist (the most successful cash robbery in US history), and murder. His first book, Blye, Private Eye, was based on a year spent with. From the small-time scamming of his early years, his first arrest at the age of sixteen and initiation into the dealings of his wiseguy friends and bosses, Henry Hill tells of the good times, dodgy dealings, indulgences, and the insularity of the mob-controlled neighbourhoods. Nicholas Pileggi Reporter, New York Author of Nonfiction Books ' Here you are. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' GoodFellas is Henry Hill's own story, telling the fascinating and sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster - the violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honour. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. It should have lasted forever, but Lefty’s obsession with running the town-and Tony’s obsession with Lefty’s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri-eventually led to the betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in mob history.'`At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. Howard Fishman is the author of the new book To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie. For years, it was the perfect arrangement-Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Nicholas Pileggi, a writer and producer, suggested that given her address.

No one knew more about casinos than Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. He worked as a journalist for Associated Press in the 1950s where he specialized in crime reporting. the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas. Author Nicholas Pileggi talks about his book, 'Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas' and his collaboration with Martin Scorsese on the movie. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award–winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style. Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggis remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what.

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