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The enthralling story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection Programme, made into the hugely acclaimed Martin Scorsese film _________________________ ‘Absolutely engrossing' - New York Times ‘The best book ever written on organised crime' - Cosmopolitan ‘A riveting account of organised crime as a way of life ... extraordinary' - Publishers Weekly _________________________ ‘At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' GoodFellas is Henry Hill's own story, telling the fascinating and sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster - the violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honour. From the small-time scamming of his early years, his first arrest at the age of sixteen and initiation into the dealings of his wiseguy friends and bosses, Henry Hill tells of the good times, dodgy dealings, indulgences, and the insularity of the mob-controlled neighbourhoods. But things start to go too far. To save his own life, Hill turns into a Federal witness, and the mob is to this day still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, the six-million dollar Lufthansa heist (the most successful cash robbery in US history), and murder.

For years, Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. Lefty's obsessions with running the town and Tony's obsession with Lefty's beautiful showgirl wife, Geri eventually led to betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest scandals in mob history.

Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life--has been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis 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...absolutely engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob--from one who's lived it.

»Den bästa bok som skrivits om organiserad brottslighet.« CosmopolitanRedan som tolvåring vet Henry Hill hur man äger världen - genom att bli en person att räkna med inom maffian, en maffiabroder. När han vägrar samarbeta med polisen vinner han förtroende från två ledande figurer i New Jerseys undre värld. Paul Vario och Jimmy Burke arbetar för familjen Lucchese, en av de fem mäktiga familjer som utgör maffian i New York-området. Henry Hill knyts till verksamheten, som består av en rad kriminella aktiviteter: pengatvätt, droghandel, hasardspel, utpressning och mord.Maffiabröder är bästsäljaren som låg till grund för Martin Scorseses storfilm Goodfellas med Robert De Niro och Ray Liotta i huvudrollerna. Kriminalreportern Nicholas Pileggis sanna redogörelse för Henry Hills liv är klassisk och högklassig true crime som skildrar maffialivet från insidan.I svensk översättning av Gösta Zetterlund.NICHOLAS PILEGGI [f.1933] är en amerikansk författare, producent och manusförfattare. Mest känd är han för boken Maffiabröder [Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, 1986] som blev filmen Goodfellas. Filmmanuset gav Pileggi en Oscarsnominering.