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The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld  Cover Image Book Book

The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / Peter Edwards, Luis Horacio Nájera.

Summary:

"Joined by an award-winning Mexican journalist, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals the 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. Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. Targetting the old guard of Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, still led in many cases by men in their seventies and eighties and steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition, the newcomers were nothing like their predecessors. The impatient millennials leading this self-styled 'Wolfpack' were organized-crime disruptors who grew up with technology at their fingertips in a socially networked criminal underworld. They're part of Canada's most ethnically diverse generation, and their organization was as inclusive as it is criminal. They shared an overwhelming sense of entitlement, with a self-assuredness that astonished their rivals but left them foolishly exposed to law enforcement, enemies and the force in global crime they were arrogant enough to think they could handle doing business with. The dominant and most violent force in the global narcotics trade through the 2000s, Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels, recognized the naivety of their eager new customers up north and invited themselves to Canada to take advantage. In times of chaos and collapsing orders, disruptors rule. But was this new gang the new underworld order, or just the latest challenger in an ongoing upheaval in the wake of Rizzuto's death? The bloody answers are in The Wolfpack."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735275393 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 290 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Wolfpack Alliance (Gang) > History.
Gangs > Canada > History > 21st century.
Organized crime > Canada > History > 21st century.
Genre: True crime stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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