![]() ![]() ![]() Hill's story becomes an extraordinary vantage on a demimonde that lives a high, violent, score-to-score life in which car theft, hijacking-to-order, credit-card scams, cigarette smuggling, and other hustles and schemes are as workaday as 9-to-5 at the office. The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run - Kindle edition by Hill, Henry, Davis, Priscilla, Pileggi, Nicholas. The book is the basis for the 1990 Academy Awardwinning film Goodfellas. Pileggi, a crime reporter for New York writing here with Hill's cooperation, does a superb job of re-creating the gangster's career, from his early days as an errand boy (at 12) to racketeer Paulie Vario in Brooklyn's BrownsvilleEast New York section, to his pivotal roles in a Boston College point-shaving scandal and the $6-million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport in 1978. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter. Its hard to imagine that the obsessive and frenetic Martin Scorsese ever endured blue periods in his career, but twenty years ago, he was going through one. The "wiseguy'' (mob parlance for a street-level hoodlum) is Henry Hill, 30-year veteran of a Brooklyn strong-arm branch of the Luchese crime family, who turned against and helped convict his former associates five years ago and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. This is a riveting account of organized crime as a way of life. ![]()
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