WISE GUY

"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 Pileggis 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 Hills 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.