Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob-from one who's lived it. "Nonstop.absolutely engrossing" ( The New York Times Book Review ). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds.with Henry Hill's crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill-the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life-has been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" ( Cosmopolitan ). They were always fucking up like that, and I didn’t want them fucking up with my life.Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill-the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster. been hailed as the best book ever written on organized crime (Cosmopolitan). In my own drug case, for instance, I knew that the informant was Bobby Germaine's son, because the cops had accidentally left his name in the court papers. Listen to Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi available from Rakuten Kobo. It wasn't that the feds were crooked and would sell me out. The Insider: the FBIs undercover 'wiseguy' goes public by Goddard, Donald, introduction by Nicholas Pileggi and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. > And still, the idea of trusting myself to the feds was almost as scary as having to face Jimmy. Wiseguys like Paulie have been paying off the cops for so many years that they have probably sent more cops' kids to college than anyone else. … The other reason you have to be allied with somebody like Paulie is to keep the cops off your back. All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. The guys who worked for Paulie had to make their own dollar. > There were hundreds of guys who depended upon Paulie for their living, but he never paid out a dime. Finally, after a couple of weeks, my mother had to go down to the post office and complain." > Then Tuddy said from now on all mail from the school gets delivered to the pizza parlor, and if the guy ever again delivers another letter from the school to my house, Tuddy's going to shove him in the pizza oven feet first.
They are addicted to drugs and to gambling, so the fun is predictable. Even as they are killing people, they like to defend themselves as being just like big kids, who like to have fun.
It should be interesting to see things from Henry Hill and his wife's perspectives, but there is so little there.
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