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  • Published: 15 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784759490
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99

On the Run



The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind Goodfellas, a harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst constantly dodging the clutches of the mafia.


'An extraordinary story' Julie Gregory, author of Sickened

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind Goodfellas

By the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback. Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. On his way to prison, lifelong ganster Henry is given two options: sleep with the fishes, or enter the FBI's Witness Protection Program. Gregg and Gina are dragged along for the ride. Like nomads, they're forced to wander from state to state, constantly inventing new names and finding new friends, only to abandon them at a moment's notice. Living under constant fear of being found and killed. But Henry, the rock Gregg and Gina so desperately need, is a heavy cocaine user and knows only the criminal life. He is soon up to his old tricks and consistently putting their identities in jeopardy. And so it continues until the kids, now almost grown, can no longer ignore that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining under the roof of their increasingly unbalanced father.

  • Published: 15 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784759490
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99

About the authors

Gregg Hill

Gregg and Gina Hill were swept away from their lives at a very young age to enter the Witness Protection Program with their father and mother. This is the first time they've spoken about their experiences. They currently live in different parts of the United States under aliases.

Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden was born in Ilford in 1925. During World War II she was evacuated to Wales, an experience which informed her 1973 children’s classic, Carrie’s War. She studied PPE at Somerville College, Oxford and began writing during her first marriage. She went on to write for both children and adults, producing nearly fifty books, including an autobiography and a memoir about her experiences during and following the Potters Bar rail crash of May 2002, in which her husband, Austen Kark, was killed and she herself was seriously injured – but unbowed. Several of her children’s novels have become modern classics, and many of her works have been translated into numerous languages. By the time of her death in 2012, Bawden was widely regarded as one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-loved novelists, with the majority of her books remaining in print.

Gina Hall

Gregg and Gina Hill were swept away from their lives at a very young age to enter the Witness Protection Program with their father and mother. This is the first time they've spoken about their experiences. They currently live in different parts of the United States under aliases.

Praise for On the Run

A welcome antidote to the kind of bargain-basement self-glorifying tell-alls that constitute a large section of gangster-themed writing

Real Crime Magazine

An extraordinary story

Julie Gregory, author of Sickened

Henry Hill lived life dangerously close to the edge, and nearly pulled his family into the abyss. That his children survived to tell this fascinating tale is a testament to their resolve

Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy
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