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Explore 24 books like Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi — a handpicked selection united by Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Law Enforcement, and True Crime.

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The Heroic Gangster The Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back — Neil Hanson

The Heroic Gangster The Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

The Kelly Hunters The Gripping True Story of the Desperate Manhunt to Bring Down Australia’s Most Notorious Outlaw, from the Bestselling Award-Winning Author of MRS KELLY, BANJO and SISTER VIV — Grantlee Kieza

The Kelly Hunters The Gripping True Story of the Desperate Manhunt to Bring Down Australia’s Most Notorious Outlaw, from the Bestselling Award-Winning Author of MRS KELLY, BANJO and SISTER VIV

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America — Sam Giancana

Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Chasing the Dragon How to Win the War on Drugs — Dan Addario

Chasing the Dragon How to Win the War on Drugs

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

The Infiltrator The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History — Robert Mazur

The Infiltrator The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Catching Hell A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal — Jay Dobyns

Catching Hell A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Smuggler’s Blues A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 1) — Richard Stratton

Smuggler’s Blues A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 1)

Richard Stratton

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Riding with Evil Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang — Ken Croke

Riding with Evil Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Killing the Mob The Fight Against Organized Crime in America — Bill O’Reilly

Killing the Mob The Fight Against Organized Crime in America — Bill O’Reilly

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Making Jack Falcone An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family — Joaquin “Jack” Garcia

Making Jack Falcone An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family — Joaquin “Jack” Garcia

Joaquin "Jack" Garcia

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob — Kevin Weeks

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Breaking the Code A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him — Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Breaking the Code A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him

Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Snowblind A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade — Robert Sabbag

Snowblind A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws My Infiltration of America’s Deadliest Biker Gangs — Charles Falco

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws My Infiltration of America’s Deadliest Biker Gangs

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw — Mark Bowden

Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Queen of Thieves The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York — J. North Conway

Queen of Thieves The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York

J. North Conway

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

We’re Going to Win This Thing The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster — Lin DeVecchio

We’re Going to Win This Thing The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

The State-Line Mob A True Story of Murder and Intrigue — W. R. Morris

The State-Line Mob A True Story of Murder and Intrigue

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Bad to Blue The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective — Mike Moy

Bad to Blue The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Black Mass The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob — Dick Lehr

Black Mass The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • Law Enforcement

Casino Love and Honor in Las Vegas — Nicholas Pileggi

Casino Love and Honor in Las Vegas

Nicholas Pileggi

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

The Mafia Philosopher Two Tonys — Shaun Attwood

The Mafia Philosopher Two Tonys

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

The Shot Caller A Latino Gangbanger’s Miraculous Escape from a Life of Violence to a New Life in Christ — Casey Diaz

The Shot Caller A Latino Gangbanger’s Miraculous Escape from a Life of Violence to a New Life in Christ

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

The Supreme Team The Birth of Crack and Hip-hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed — Seth Ferranti

The Supreme Team The Birth of Crack and Hip-hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Connected by Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Law Enforcement. Authors featured include Neil Hanson, Grantlee Kieza, Sam Giancana, Dan Addario, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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