Wiseguy"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 "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. "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. 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 "Wiseguy": 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, "Wiseguy" is more compelling than any novel. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 5 |
Section 3 | 32 |
Section 4 | 44 |
Section 5 | 76 |
Section 6 | 116 |
Section 7 | 127 |
Section 8 | 161 |
Section 10 | 191 |
Section 11 | 202 |
Section 12 | 211 |
Section 13 | 223 |
Section 14 | 237 |
Section 15 | 247 |
Section 16 | 260 |
Section 17 | 277 |
Section 9 | 177 |
Section 18 | 285 |