![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob-from one who's lived it. Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggis remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what. 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 ofĪnd overseeing all the unforgettable action. This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece 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" ( He found fame when his familiarity with the members and workings of the Mafia led to his two bestselling nonfiction volumes about organized crime, Wiseguy: Life. Pileggi stumbled into journalism, having set out at Long Island University in the class of 1955 to become an English teacher and maybe a novelist like Ernest Hemingway. ![]()
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