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Wise Guy : Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wise Guy : Life in a Mafia Family about?
<p><P><blockquote>"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</blockquote><P><i>Wiseguy</i> 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. <i>Wiseguy</i> 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.<P>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 <i>Wiseguy</i>: 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,<P><i>Wiseguy</i> is more compelling than any novel.</p>
Who reads Wise Guy : Life in a Mafia Family?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671723224
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (8,868 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13