Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by
Nicholas Pileggi
The basis for the Scorsese movie. First hand accounts of mobsters raising all kinds of hell and making crazy amounts on money back before Las Vegas became Disneyland Gambling Center.
It’s a little convoluted compared to the film. All the information is in there but Pileggi makes very little effort to connect the dots for you. Still, it’s incredible what those crazy mother****ers did. And it’s really something to try to wrap your head around all the skill sets these psychopaths had to have to pull all this **** off. Anyone who doesn’t think you have to be brilliant to be a successful criminal should read this.