On the Run

'On May 20, 1980 Gregg and Gina Hill ceased to exist. Our names were erased. Our IDs were confiscated and shredded. Our friends were banished to memory. My grandmother and grandfather and aunts became people we used to know. We were sent far away, someplace we'd never been or even imagined, strangers in a strange place, to start over with nothing but a fake name and everything to hide.I always thought the worst thing that could happen to my father was that he'd go back to prison or get...
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'On May 20, 1980 Gregg and Gina Hill ceased to exist. Our names were erased. Our IDs were confiscated and shredded. Our friends were banished to memory. My grandmother and grandfather and aunts became people we used to know. We were sent far away, someplace we'd never been or even imagined, strangers in a strange place, to start over with nothing but a fake name and everything to hide.I always thought the worst thing that could happen to my father was that he'd go back to prison or get killed.I was wrong. This was much worse. And it was only beginning.'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 children of Henry Hill, the Mafia wiseguy-turned-informant immortalised in the book, WISEGUYS 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 that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining with their increasingly unbalanced father.