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From Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter comes the captivating truecrime story of a Mafia mollthe female counterpart of the pseudonymous Henry Hill the star of WiseguyAn insiders view of mob life that is by turns comic and chilling Los Angeles Times
Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel and aspired to what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life After a brief marriage to a furrier named Norman Brickman she achieved her goal and then some inserting herself into the lives of dozens of wiseguysItalian mobsters were her preferenceand becoming addicted to the rush of danger and lawlessness But after years of violence a brutal gang rape and finally threats against her daughter she turned the tables on those who betrayed her and became a government informant wearing a wire and ultimately becoming a major witness in the governments successful case against the Colombo crime family
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