"At the age of tweleve 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 Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of the life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. WISEGUY is Henry Hill's 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 six-million dollar Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. history which led to ten murders.