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Wiseguy Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn child who all knew from age group 12 that “to be a wiseguy was to possess the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s existence—continues to be hailed while “the best reserve ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is the true-crime bestseller that was the foundation for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the surplus, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, as well as the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. “Nonstop…completely engrossing” (The New York Times Publication Review).

Examine it and go through the secret life in the mob—from one who’s lived it.