Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi chronicles mob associate Henry Hill's decades spent inside the Lucchese crime family, from street-corner thefts in 1950s Brooklyn through the Lufthansa heist and his eventual decision to become a federal informant. The vivid insider account of New York organised crime served as the direct basis for Martin Scorsese's celebrated 1990 film Goodfellas.

ISBN 9780671633929 · Pocket · 1985