Wiseguy is more compelling than any novel. A firsthand account of the secret world of the mob, 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. Henry Hill knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. 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. 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. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." - Henry Hill Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate turned informant. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster.
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