Title:

Wiseguy

Genre:
Crime
History
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Narrative:
Alternating Person
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:20:54
Synopsis:
”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.” 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.
Author:
Nicholas Pileggi
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Barcode:
9781439184219
Number of Copies:
1
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$10.79
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-01-15
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:20:54

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