{"product_id":"the-wolfpack-the-millennial-mobsters-who-brought-chaos-and-the-cartels-to-the-canadian-underworld-9780735275416","title":"The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Edwards\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vintage Books Canada\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books Canada\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\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 bustling 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 laneway. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like isolated tragedies--but there was nothing isolated about them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the roiling landscape of \u003ci\u003eThe Wolfpack\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Vintage Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029815353495,"sku":"9780735275416","price":1344.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780735275416.webp?v=1769204628","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wolfpack-the-millennial-mobsters-who-brought-chaos-and-the-cartels-to-the-canadian-underworld-9780735275416","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}