A review by rsania
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

3.0

Sounds like this might be one of the few times the movie is better than the book, but I had no idea this was the basis for “Goodfellas” when I first started reading it so I am none the wiser. A decent, journalistic look into life as a mafioso - a brutal, cutthroat world where there is no honour, loyalty or empathy. Where money comes and goes, with hustlers rich one week and empty handed in another. And where you can only survive if you rat out your friend before they get you first.