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From Publishers Weekly This is a riveting account of organized crime as a way of life. The "wiseguy" (mob parlance for a street-level hoodlum) is Henry Hill, 30-year veteran of a Brooklyn strong-arm branch of the Luchese crime family, who turned against and helped convict his former associates five years ago and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. Pileggi, a crime reporter for New York writing here with Hill's cooperation, does a superb job of re-creating the gangster's career, from his early days as an errand boy (at 12) to racketeer Paulie Vario in Brooklyn's BrownsvilleEast New York section, to his pivotal roles in a Boston College point-shaving scandal and the $6-million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport in 1978. Hill's story becomes an extraordinary vantage on a demimonde that lives a high, violent, score-to-score life in which car theft, hijacking-to-order, credit-card scams, cigarette smuggling, and other hustles and schemes are as workaday as 9-to-5 at the office. Literary Guild featured alternate. Foreign rights: Sterling Lord. January 30 Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s Henry Hill aspire

Who reads Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family?

Author

Pileggi, Nicholas

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

1990

Language

EN

Category

true crime

Subjects

Crime, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.7 / 5 (4,332 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14