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

This is actually the true-crime bestseller that was the foundation for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought 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…unquestionably engrossing” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review).

Read it and go through the key life in the mob—in one who’s lived it.