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Name: Casino by Nicholas Pileggi
Author: Nicholas Pileggi
ISBN: 9780671665708

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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CategoryMystery & Thriller
LanguageEnglish
Pages348
Published1995
File size1.5 MB
FormatPDF
ISBN9780671665708

Key ideas from the book

The book offers an account of the billion-dollar gambling business and the men who ran it.
It describes Lefty’s role in the mob’s Las Vegas casinos.
It identifies Tony Spilotro as the mob’s muscle.
It includes Geri, Lefty’s wife, in a story involving love, revenge, and murder.
It may interest readers of true crime, crime history, and Mafia biographies.

About Casino by Nicholas Pileggi

Published in 1996, Casino is Nicholas Pileggi’s nonfiction account of the billion-dollar gambling business and the secretive, dangerous men who ran its Las Vegas casinos. It follows mob figures identified as Lefty, described as the casinos’ brains, and Tony Spilotro, their muscle, alongside Geri, Lefty’s wife.

Love, revenge, and murder are part of this true-crime story of Mafia influence and casino operations. Readers interested in organized crime, American crime history, and biographies of figures from mob lore may find it especially relevant.

About Nicholas Pileggi

Nicholas Pileggi is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter known for his reporting on organized crime. His nonfiction book *Wiseguy* (1985), based on the life of mob associate Henry Hill, became the source for Martin Scorsese’s film *Goodfellas*, which Pileggi co-wrote. He also wrote *Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas*, a close look at the people and criminal networks behind Las Vegas casinos, and co-wrote Scorsese’s film adaptation. Pileggi’s work explores the worlds of crime,…

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