Gregg Hill
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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood
Gregg Hill, Gina Hill
In the 1970s, Henry Hill pulled off heists and busted heads with the Mob. In the ‘80s, he became famous-as the antihero of the bestselling book Wiseguy and blockbuster movie Goodfellas. But there was one story he couldn’t tell. Now his children, Gregg and Gina, tell it for him.
On the Run is the extraordinary true account of what it’s like to grow up in the federal witness protection program. Just as Gregg was celebrating his bar mitzvah and his sister, Gina, was buying her first bra, Henry Hill was informing on his former cronies. Henry, his wife, and children were swept into protective custody. And Gregg and Gina, who’d already been exposed to their father’s wild side, were about to be ripped from their home and lose the only normalcy they’d ever known.
Taking only what they could fit in a bag, the Hill children began a nightmarish life on the run: constantly moving from town to town, often without warning, and always knowing that their Uncle Jimmy, along with their father’s other former “friends,” wanted the Hills dead. All the while, Henry, a violent career…
