The Wolfpack
The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld
$34.30
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
21 June 2022
Summary
Award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Najera and leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveal would-be successors to Vito Rizzuto’s criminal dominance—a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters, and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada’s doorstep of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.
Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Najera, leading organized-crime author Peter …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780735275416 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0735275416 |
| Author: | Peter Edwards, Luis Najera |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall Press |
| Imprint: | Prentice Hall Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 21 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm |
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Critics Review
“Filling in the backstory behind many crimes in Canada over the past two decades, it’s a fascinating look at how criminal organizations work now.” —Toronto Star
“Both [Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera] are brave men who expose the villainy of some of the deadliest people on Earth.” —Winnipeg Free Press
“The Wolfpack is a must-read for any true-crime aficionados looking for insight into the organized criminal underworld of the 2020s.” —CBC.ca Books
“An important book since so little has been written about organized crime in Canada, and frankly because it is a readable and interesting tale of criminal incompetence and police surveillance.” —Small Wars Journal
About The Author
Peter Edwards
PETER EDWARDS is the organized-crime beat reporter for the Toronto Star and the bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books and one young adult novel. His works have been published in four languages. Edwards is a member of Top Left Entertainment, a production development company, and an executive producer for the Citytv series Bad Blood, created by New Metric Media and aired on Netflix. His book One Dead Indian- The Premier, the Police and the Ipperwash Crisis was made into the Gemini Award-winning movie One Dead Indian by Sienna Films that aired on CTV. Edwards was awarded an eagle feather from the Union of Ontario Indians and a gold medal from the Centre for Human Rights. His book Delusion (published in Europe as The Infiltrator) is on the CIA’s recommended reading list for staff and agents.
LUIS HORACIO N JERA is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008. Najera was a reporter for Grupo Reforma based in Ciudad Juarez, a notorious gateway to the lucrative North American drug market and widely deemed from 2008 to 2012 the most dangerous place on Earth. He was the PEN Canada-George Brown Writer in Residence in Toronto, and recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freedom Award and one of the 2011 Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammet Awards. He is a member of Massey College and former fellow at the Citizen Lab/Canada Centre for Global Security Studies. He received a Master’s of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto.
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