Writing style
Direct · Journalistic
Apple BooksCasino
True crime
- First published
- 1995
- Print length
- 363 pagesPocket Star Books, 1996
Description
Nicholas Pileggi examines organized crime’s role in Las Vegas gambling during the 1970s, when criminal groups secretly extracted profits from casinos they controlled. At the center are casino operator Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his mob-linked friend Anthony Spilotro. Rosenthal’s management expertise helps keep the operation lucrative, while Spilotro transfers concealed casino earnings to mob leaders. Their arrangement comes under pressure from police scrutiny, marital betrayal, and conflicts within the organization. Pileggi frames these events as a true-crime account of a profitable casino industry shaped by covert criminal extraction and the eventual loss of organized crime’s control over Las Vegas casinos.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Dark · Detached · Suspenseful · Tense
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Character · Information · Plot
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Pocket Star Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671665708
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