by Nicholas Pileggi · Simon & Schuster · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724290974
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«Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas» is the true-crime chronicle by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling, in hardback from Simon & Schuster (368 pages, in English).
Based on real events, it tells the story of the mob behind the Las Vegas casinos: how gambling money moved and who controlled it. Pileggi reconstructs a tale of love, revenge and murder featuring Lefty, the operations mastermind, the enforcer Tony Spilotro and Geri, Lefty's showgirl wife.
Non-fiction work in History and true crime; the cover presents Pileggi as the author of «Wiseguy». The listing notes English and French as languages of the edition.
For readers of true crime, mob chronicles and stories set in Las Vegas.
Nicholas Pileggi is an American author, screenwriter, film producer and journalist. He is the widower of director and journalist Nora Ephron. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
