Inside the Montreal Mafia: The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa

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This book is the product of two journalists dangerous investigation, a deep look into the heart of the North American Mafia. It lifts the veil on the life and on the end of some of the most influential actors of organized crime of recent years: Vito Rizzuto and Andrew Scoppa.

A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family

For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omert by talking to journalists. From October 2014 to October 2019, Flix Sguin and Eric Thibault held multiple secret meetings with Andrew Scoppa, getting an exclusive inside look at the inner workings of the North American Mafia. This book is the culmination of their perilous investigation. It sheds light on the life and death of one of the most influential organized crime figures in recent years.

At exactly 2 p.m., there was a knock at the door. It was him: the source every journalist dreamed of having. The short man was armed and placed his gun on the table Id moved between the bed and a chair.

Are you impressed he asked with a broad grin.

Yes. Very much.

Before me was Andrew Scoppa: close confidant of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, international heroin trafficker and cold-blooded killer.

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"Located somewhere near the intersection of an in-depth profile of the inner machinations of organized crime in Quebec, a recent history of the Montreal Mafia, and a years-long interview with a high-ranking gangster in need of a good psychologist, Inside the Montreal Mafia is an entertaining, illuminating, and often sobering look at the downfall of the Rizzuto crime family ... Highly readable and engaging." -- Montreal Review of Books
"A fresh, fascinating, deep look at the Montreal Mafia, told by two veteran journalists with a firm grip on their subject matter and a knack for storytelling." -- Peter Edwards, co-author of The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld (with Luis Horacio Njera)

Author Bio

Born in Gaspsie, Eric Thibault has covered police and organized crime in Quebec since 1993. He has written for the Journal de Montral since 2011.

Flix Sguin has covered multiple major national and international news stories since the early 2000s. He specializes in police investigations and organized crime. Inside the Montreal Mafia is the third collaboration between Eric Thibault and Flix Sguin, following Gallant: Confessions d'un tueur gages and Le livre noir des Hells Angels. Sguin and Thibault are both members of the Qubecor Investigative Bureau.