{"product_id":"the-wolfpack-the-millennial-mobsters-who-brought-chaos-and-the-cartels-to-the-canadian-underworld-paperback","title":"The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLuis Najera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are gunned down in an attack that sends an American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a Canadian is killed at a Nuevo Vallarta coffee shop, his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of President Calderón's war on drugs and the cartels' response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of his life in a Playa del Carmen nightclub. An infamous heckler from an NBA Toronto Raptors game turns up dead in a bullet-riddled car in a midtown lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies--but there was nothing isolated about them.\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce readers to the common cause of a near-decade of chaos. Meet the Wolfpack, millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of Canada's underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the roiling landscape of The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of a time of criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang's unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of the Canadian underworld without a fight. Brazen criminal disruptors or entitled upstarts looking to get rich without paying their dues--whatever you think of them, you will never forget the Wolfpack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePETER EDWARDS is the bestselling author of 15 non-fiction books and one young adult novel. Edwards is executive producer for the City TV series \u003ci\u003eBad Blood, \u003c\/i\u003e based on his book\u003ci\u003e Business or Blood; Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored by Italian journalist Antonio Nicaso. Edwards is the first ever beat reporter on organized crime for the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been awarded an eagle feather from the Union of Ontario Indians and a gold medal from the Centre for Human Rights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLUIS HORACIO NÁJERA is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008. Nájera was a reporter for Grupo Reforma based in Ciudad Juárez, 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.95 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766925820192,"sku":"9780735275416","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/361d377e50a0423ac050984653f38108.webp?v=1780301087","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-wolfpack-the-millennial-mobsters-who-brought-chaos-and-the-cartels-to-the-canadian-underworld-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}