"At the age of twelve 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 life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Wi...(展开全部)

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 gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was th...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯•派洛基 | Nicholas Pileggi 1933年生于美国纽约。记者出身，报道黑帮犯罪活动、帮派争斗等题材尤有心得。此后逐步拓宽职业领域，身兼作家、编剧、制片人多重角色。代表作《盗亦有道》与《赌场风云》（Casino）均已改编为电影，并跻身影史经典。