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Wiseguy | 
 enlarge | Author: Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 8573
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Rei Mti
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0671723227
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15092
EAN: 9780671723224
ASIN: 0671723227
Publication Date: September 1, 1990
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"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.
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 MOVIE STRIAGHT FROM BOOK January 14, 2008
If you've seen the movie, then you've read the book. And that's a testiment to the movie producers because this book is awesome.
Awesome July 23, 2007
GREAT book. It's great to read about Henry Hill, of whom the movie Goodfellas was made. A must for any fan of Goodfellas!
 Filling out the GoodFellas story July 2, 2007
If you've seen the movie GOODFELLAS and remain curious about the book...then definitely check out Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy."
This is the whole story of "Henry Hill," the lower level mobster who could never be made (he was not a full-blood Italian) but was such a great earner that he made his own place in the Mob.
I'm a huge fan of GOODFELLAS and it's great to see how Scorsese & Company bring the book to life. You'll often run across lines of dialogue straight from the narrative that ended up in the movie. And the book is fascinating and chilling reminder that this stuff really happened.
But the book also fills in the story that the movie could only touch on. Henry's military service was completely left out of the film but is discussed here, a funny chapter about how he applied his mob money-making methods while serving his country. The book also discusses their biggest heist in detail, something not shown in the film (Henry hears of the heist while taking a shower and we never see or hear about how they pulled it off). Pileggi does a great job of weaving in New York and Mafia history as Henry tell his story.
All in all, "Wiseguy" is definitely a book for anyone interested in the Mafia, a lean, fast-moving biography that sheds much more light on the GOODFELLAS phenomenon.
Excellent May 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If your a mob freak like me any mob book is a great buy. This is a classic among mob books. One of the best rats tells a great book. This doesn't dissapoint. buy it, you won't be sorry.
Good Quick Read April 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you like the movie this fills in some of the spots! Interestingly, the movie is a little more entertaining but this wasnt bad for some light reading.
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