Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi’s *Wiseguy* is the unvarnished true-crime account of Henry Hill, the working-class Brooklyn kid who lived and breathed the mafia life. Hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" (Cosmopolitan), this journalistic chronicle delves into the violence, excess, and betrayals of the mob, straight from one who experienced it. *Wiseguy* served as the compelling basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece, *GoodFellas*, offering a "nonstop...absolutely engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review) look inside the secret world of wiseguys, wives, and Feds.

Archival Categorization Notes

This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of True Crime. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Organized Crime, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.