Author\u00a0<\/small>Peter Edwards<\/a> and Luis Najera<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis N\u00e1jera, 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.<\/strong>
A\u00a0 man\u00a0 watching\u00a0 the\u00a0 Euro\u00a0 Cup\u00a0 on\u00a0 a\u00a0 restaurant\u00a0 patio \u00a0is\u00a0 shot\u00a0 dead\u00a0 on\u00a0 a\u00a0 busy\u00a0 Sunday\u00a0 afternoon\u00a0 in\u00a0 Toronto. \u00a0Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are\u00a0 gunned\u00a0 down\u00a0 in\u00a0 an\u00a0 attack\u00a0 that\u00a0 sends\u00a0 an \u00a0American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a\u00a0 Canadian\u00a0 is\u00a0 killed\u00a0 at\u00a0 a\u00a0 Nuevo\u00a0 Vallarta\u00a0 coffee\u00a0 shop, \u00a0his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of\u00a0 President Calder\u00f3n\u2019s war on drugs and the cartels\u2019 response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of\u00a0 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\u00a0 violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies\u2014but there was nothing isolated about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis N\u00e1jera introduce readers to the common cause of\u00a0 a near-decade of\u00a0 chaos. Meet\u00a0 the\u00a0 Wolfpack,\u00a0 millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of\u00a0 Canada\u2019s underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of\u00a0 Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzm\u00e1n\u2019s Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the roiling landscape of\u00a0 The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of\u00a0 a time of\u00a0 criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang\u2019s unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n