Jimmy the Gent: The Life and Heists of Criminal Mastermind Jimmy Burke

Jimmy Burke was a key player in Nicholas Pileggi’s Wiseguy and brilliantly portrayed by Robert De Niro in Goodfellas, but the explosive life story of the underworld architect of the greatest heist in American history has never been told—until now in the first-ever, fully comprehensive biography of the notorious Jimmy the Gent.

James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke wasn’t blood to the Lucchese crime family of the Italian Mafia, but the brazen Irishman’s moneymaking criminal enterprises, fearlessness, ...