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Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate turned informant. The book is the basis for the 1990 Oscar –winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese .
The Godfather book series is a series of crime novels about Italian-American Mafia families, most notably the fictional Corleone family, led by Don Vito Corleone and later his son Michael Corleone. The first novel, The Godfather , written by Mario Puzo , was released in 1969.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Novels about the Sicilian Mafia (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Novels about organized crime"
The book is a revealing tale of life in the Mafia. It gave an in depth look at the Los Angeles crime family, The Chicago Outfit , and The Cleveland crime family . Amongst the notable mobsters prominently featured are Jack Dragna , Mickey Cohen , John Roselli , Sam Giancana , Frank Bompensiero , Louis Tom Dragna , Dominic Brooklier , Michael ...
The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta [il ˈdʒorno della tʃiˈvetta]) is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961. As the author wrote in his preface of the 1972 Italian edition, the novel was written at a time in which the existence of the Mafia itself was debated and ...
The Valachi Papers is a 1968 biography written by Peter Maas, telling the story of former mafia member Joe Valachi, a low-ranking member of the New York–based Genovese crime family, who was the first ever government witness coming from the American Mafia itself. His account of his criminal past revealed many previously unknown details of the ...
The book is a story of life as a criminal and mafia associate. Breakshot includes Gallo's efforts to solve the 1987 murder of Joe Avila, [ 1 ] a local restaurateur in Orange County, California, who was also said to be one of OC's biggest cocaine dealers in the 1980s.
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo.Originally published on 10 March 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1] the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City and Long Island, headed by Vito Corleone, the Godfather.