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Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family

Nicholas Pileggi

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Autobiography Biography Biography & Autobiography Biography: General Case Studies Crime Crime and criminals Criminals Criminals & Outlaws Criminals - United States Criminology Fiction Henry Hill Mafia Mafia - United States Media Tie-In Media Tie-In - General Movie or Television Tie-In Movie-TV Tie-In - General Murder Organized Crime Organized crime - United States Serial Killers Social Science True Crime United States

PublisherSimon and Schuster
PublishedAug 15, 1987
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill *Wiseguy* is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. *Wiseguy* is Henry Hill's story, in fascinating, brutal detail, the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster -- his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistresses, his code of honor. Henry Hill knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. The mob is still hunting him for what he reveals in *Wiseguy*: hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, and the $6 million Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. history, which led to ten murders. A firsthand account of the secret world of the mob, *Wiseguy* is more compelling than any novel.