2) Money and power are nice! And 3) nobody really expects to be caught. Mostly it boils down to a few simple things: 1) Whatever everybody else around you is doing seems perfectly normal. And the book also offers some insights into the psychology of career criminals, although it turns out not to be too terribly profound. I'm not sure whether I find that fact entertaining, disappointing, or kind of scary.I did learn some things about the structure and day-to-day business of organized crime that I failed to pick up from watching The Sopranos, though. I haven't seen that particular film, but I will say that I was a little surprised by just how much the people described here resembled some of the gangsters I have seen in movies and TV. (He chose the FBI.) This biography of Hill - although perhaps it's at least partly an autobiography, as much of it is in his own words - was the basis for the movie Goodfellas. He continued on with a rather impressive variety of illegal activities until 1980, when he realized that two remaining options were to cooperate with the FBI and enter the Witness Protection Program, or to get whacked by his supposed friends for knowing too much about a multimillion-dollar robbery. New York mobster Henry Hill started his criminal career in 1955, at the tender age of eleven, running errands for the local mafia.
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