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Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family



Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi remarkable bestseller the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Wise Guy is Henry Hill 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; Hundred crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, and the six million dollar Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. history which led to ten murders. A first hand account of the secret world of the Mob, wiseguy is more extraordinary, more compelling than any novel.


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813 Pil w
Publisher Pocket Books : New York.,
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308hlm; 10,5 x 17cm
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0-671-63392-9
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813
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