The Wolfpack
The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld
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The Wolfpack
Narrated by:
Juan Chioran, Luis Najera
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A 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.
In 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.
This 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.
Critic Reviews
“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
"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
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