Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
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ISBN: 0684808323 / Publisher: Simon & Schuster, December 1995
Traces the alliance of Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro, who ran the Mafia in Las Vegas and whose partnership ended in adultery, murder, and revenge
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From Nicholas Pileggi comes this tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge Mafia-style, at once a love story and a bigger than life business story, the business being Las Vegas's multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry - and how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over it.It is a real-life love story set in America's favorite never-never land, a Mafia tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, as well as the inside account, in never-before-published detail, of just how the mob lost its control of the neon moneymaking machine it created, in which everything ran like clockwork - except for the little fact that Tony Spilotro was sleeping with his best friend's wife.
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