Frank Rosenthal, El Zurdo, tuvo algo de simb?lica: como la traca final de una era en la historia de la capital mundial del juego, Las Vegas.Rosenthal, formado en la escuela de las apuestas deportivas ilegales lleg?, como otros muchos, a Las Vegas con el prop?sito de hacer olvidar su pasado y seguir trabajando en lo que siempre hab?a hecho: ser jugador. La peque?a ciudad de Nevada, sumidero de esperanzas bajo una capa febril y brillante, era una verdadera mina de oro, ideal para quienes patrocinaron la mudanza de Rosenthal, como tambi?n la ...
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… 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.
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 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.Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob-from one who’s lived it.Now with an introduction by Martin Scorcese.
