- Criminals, Crime, Case studies, Mafia
Presents a firsthand account of organized crime showing it's brutality and fascination.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Nicholas Pileggi
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Pocket Books, G. K. Hall & Company, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780552130943
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First sentence
“HENRY HILL WAS INTRODUCED to life in the mob almost by accident.”
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