Nicholas Pileggi
This is the biography of New York gangster Henry Hill and was basis for the movie “Goodfellas“. The Lufthansa robbery of 1978 is the high point of the book. It’s not a romantic picture of gangland life. Hill and his companions weren’t reluctantly violent, or even cold-bloodedly violent, they were enthusiastically violent. While it’s not as good a book as the movie was a movie, it’s an interesting, sometimes unsettling read.