From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy €"the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese€s Academy Award€“winning film GoodFellas€"comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style . . . the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas.
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No one knew more about casinos than Frank €œLefty€ Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. For years, it was the perfect arrangement€"Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. It should have lasted forever, but Lefty€s obsession with running the town€"and Tony€s obsession with Lefty€s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri€"eventually led to the betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in mob history.