Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill-the working-class Brooklyn kid who also knew from age group twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to possess the globe,” who was raised to live the highs and lows from the mafia gangster’s life-has been hailed while “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is actually the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which taken 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. “Nonstop…completely engrossing” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review).

Read it and experience the key life inside the mob-from one who’s lived it.