However the book was released the month before the film came out. Although Pileggi had already written the book and wanted it published in advance of the film version, Scorsese tried to persuade him to forgo the usual chronology and to release the book after the film. The screenplay for Casino was by Pileggi and Scorsese. The book is the basis for the Academy Award-nominated 1995 film Casino directed by Martin Scorsese. Kirkus Reviews called the book "riveting," writing that "Pileggi offers a blow-by-blow account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled as silent but deadly partners during the 1970s." Film version
Rosenthal supervises the casino operations, while Spilotro provides protection, security and also masterminds jewelry raids that lead to his crew being nicknamed the Hole in the Wall Gang.
Pileggi focuses on the story of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, a Chicago bookmaker working for organized crime, and his friend, partner and also Mafia member, Anthony Spilotro. Since the 1970s, the government has been very strict about keeping the mob out of the Vegas casinos. Today, it is believed that the major casinos are not influenced by the Mafia. Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob-from one who's lived it.Print ( hardcover & paperback), eBook, audio cassette, audio CD, Audible Audio Edition, Amazon KindleĬasino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas ( ISBN 0684808323) is a 1995 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that depicts the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas.Ĭasino covers the period through the seventies to early eighties when the Mafia controlled certain Las Vegas casinos. 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 ofĪnd overseeing all the unforgettable action. This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece 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" (
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