I used to be addicted, but I've gone off mystery novels. In any case, I thought that if I looked at the theme as someone who chose to write about murder or deadly pursuits, true crime was the way to go. The real deal.
Loved the film, never read the book, so I'm nominating
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the source for the wonderful Scorcese film
GoodFellas (the book is also titled
GoodFellas in the UK and Australia).
Quote:
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.
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US$9.99, CA$9.99, £6.95, AU$14.95 Kobo/$7.59 Amazon, OverDrive
306 pp.