Wiseguy
 

Wiseguy

by Nicholas Pileggi

"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... (read more)

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  • Rated 5 stars

Saw the movie first, but was still riveted by the book. It adds a lot more to the characters you already know from the movie and you see that some people were combined into one character for film.

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