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Still a fascinating story regardless of the many times I’ve seen Goodfellas.

This book, Wiseguy, is the book the film Goodfellas is based on. Henry Hill, started working for the mafia as a kid at 10 years old, and with both his intelligence and street smarts, grew to be the most trusted man in the Lucchesee crime family in NY.

He was finally arrested and turned Federal witness for five years giving up everyone of his friends to the prosecutors.

As of 2011, per the epilogue, he was still living under the witness protection program.

Rumor has it that a new film, called Wiseguys, might be filming this year with some big name actors. We’ll have to wait and see.

Reading this book about 30 years since it first published almost seems anticlimactic since we know about it in so many ways.
But it was a sensation back in 1990, so I feel it rated Five Stars!

PS. The author, Nicholas Pileggi, was married to Nora Ephron before her illness and death.