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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood
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Imagine a childhood spent dodging terrifying Mafia retribution: this was Gregg and Gina Hill's life. By turns heart-wrenching and hair-raising, this is the incredible true story of the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the Mafia wiseguy-turned-informant immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the hit film Goodfellas.
While Henry's in prison on drug charges, his business partner, Jimmy Burke, has been busily whacking everyone who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. The FBI gives Henry two options: sleep with the fishes, or turn informant and enter the witness protection program. Henry chooses the program, and takes his family with him.
But Henry, the rock Gregg and Gina so desperately need, is a heavy cocaine user and knows only the criminal life. Soon he's up to his old tricks and putting their new identities in jeopardy. Living under constant fear of being found and killed, they're forced to wander from state to state, inventing new names and finding new friends, only to abandon them at a moment's notice. And so it continues until the kids, now almost grown, can no longer ignore the fact that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining with their increasingly unbalanced father.
Imagine a childhood spent dodging terrifying Mafia retribution: this was Gregg and Gina Hill's life. By turns heart-wrenching and hair-raising, this is the incredible true story of the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the Mafia wiseguy-turned-informant immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the hit film Goodfellas.
While Henry's in prison on drug charges, his business partner, Jimmy Burke, has been busily whacking everyone who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. The FBI gives Henry two options: sleep with the fishes, or turn informant and enter the witness protection program. Henry chooses the program, and takes his family with him.
But Henry, the rock Gregg and Gina so desperately need, is a heavy cocaine user and knows only the criminal life. Soon he's up to his old tricks and putting their new identities in jeopardy. Living under constant fear of being found and killed, they're forced to wander from state to state, inventing new names and finding new friends, only to abandon them at a moment's notice. And so it continues until the kids, now almost grown, can no longer ignore the fact that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining with their increasingly unbalanced father.
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