Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run

"At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." —Henry Hill

When Henry Hill entered the Witness Protection Program, he was certain that his criminal days had finally come to an end. He was wrong.

For over twenty years, Henry Hill lived the high life as a powerful member of the Lucchese crime family, a life immortalized in Martin Scorsese's classic film GoodFellas. After hi...