hailed as the best book ever written on organized crime (Cosmopolitan). I suppose it’s a matter of personal taste, but I would argue that Scorsese took a good book and made a great film out of it when he found Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. It should have lasted forever, but Lefty’s obsession with running the town-and Tony’s obsession with Lefty’s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri-eventually led to the betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in mob history. Listen Free to Wiseguy audiobook by Nicholas Pileggi with a 30 Day Free Trial. For years, it was the perfect arrangement-Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. No one knew more about casinos than Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award–winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style.
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