He looks like average guy on the street. You may very well see him around town. But truth is, wise guy Henry Hill should not be alive today.

How did he escape the Mafia and live to tell about it?

Treachery, greed, deceit – it’s life in the Mafia.

Get in and no one gets out alive – except for one Seattle man.

“I lived in fear every day of my life back then,” he said.

Henry Hill

By all accounts, Henry Hill should be a dead man. He betrayed the mob and became #1 on their hit list.

“I am not sorry. I am so grateful and blessed that I made that choice. I was given a second chance at life,” he said.

Immortalized in the Martin Scorsese film "Good Fellas," Ray Liotta played Henry Hill, a gangster in the powerful Lucchese crime family in New York.

Henry started as a small-time runner, but soon knew all the mob secrets.

He had it all: money, women, power.

Then blew it all by dealing cocaine behind the mob boss' back and getting caught.

Cornered and desperate, Henry turned stool pigeon.

“I had no choice,” he continued. “Iit was either that or death. And I knew it, I was going to be killed, or my family was going to be killed if they couldn't get to me. So what do you do?”

For his protection, the government gave Henry a whole new identity. He was Martin Lewis, restaurant worker. For a year and a half, Henry and his family lived on the run: Nebraska, Kentucky, then finally Redmond, Washington, where he stopped running.

For seven years in Redmond, Henry lived a double life. The Mafia had a $2 million price tag on his head. No one could know his past or he would have no future.

Henry bought an idyllic ranch across the road from what is now Microsoft. If he hadn't sold, he'd be a millionaire.

His favorite hangout was El Toreador, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Redmond.

Henry became a fixture at the bar and at the stove.

Who would've guessed he'd turn a life of crime into life in the kitchen?

“Where do they catch wise guys so they can kill them? It's either eating, walking into a restaurant or shopping,” he said.

His recipes became a book: "Cooking on the run."

And after “Good Fellas” became a huge hit in 1991, Henry came out of hiding.

“I own my past. There's nothing I can do to change it, but I don't live that way today,” he said. “I'm not afraid no more. Why should I live in fear? It's a horrible thing to live in fear. I've been in fear most of my life, and it's something I don't wish on anyone.”

The gangsters he ratted on died in prison and there no longer is a price on his head or a target on his back. For once, Henry Hill is a free man – just another Northwesterner with a taste for the good life.

“This is my home,” he said. “I can never live in New York again. Washington state is my home now.”

Henry Hill made millions as a consultant for the movie "Good Fellas," but then squandered it all on drugs and alcohol. He is clean now and says he intends to stay that way.

Henry Hill’s book is called "The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run."