Casino: The Rise and Fall of the Mob in Las Vegas

by Nicholas Pileggi

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The Stardust… The Fremont… The Marina.
They ran them all.
And they lost.
Big time.

No one knew more about casinos than Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony 'the Ant' Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. For years it was the perfect arrangement – Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. It should have lasted forever but Lefty’s obsessions with running the town – and Tony’s obsession with Lefty’s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri – eventually led to betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest scandals in mob history.

Casino is the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold on Las Vegas, the neon money-making machine it had created.

  • ISBN10 1785031546
  • ISBN13 9781785031540
  • Publish Date 13 August 2015 (first published 23 October 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Ebury Publishing
  • Imprint Ebury Press
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 432
  • Language English