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The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / Peter Edwards, Luis Horacio Najera.
TITLE:
The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / Peter Edwards, Luis Horacio Najera.
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Toronto : Random House Canada,
Physical Description:
290 p. : ill., map.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
Summary:
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?
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780735275393