The Encyclopedia Of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher

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Respected crime reporters Peter Edwards and Michel Auger have pooled their research and expertise to create The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime. Sometimes grim, sometimes amusing and always entertaining, this book is filled with 300 entries and more than 150 illustrations, covering centuries of organised crime. Features fascinating case studies ranging from 'Black Bart' the Newfoundland pirate to Russian mobsters who arrived after the Cold War. This surprising collection of Canadian criminals will both entertain and inform.

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"With admirable diligence and dispatch, the authors harmonize the multiple solitudes that make up this vast nation into one fascinating, readable tome of transgression and terror." Globe and Mail

Author Bio

PETER EDWARDS is the bestselling author of 15 non-fiction books and one young adult novel. Edwards is executive producer for the City TV series Bad Blood, based on his book Business or Blood; Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War, co-authored by Italian journalist Antonio Nicaso. Edwards is the first ever beat reporter on organized crime for the Toronto Star. He has been awarded an eagle feather from the Union of Ontario Indians and a gold medal from the Centre for Human Rights. MICHEL AUGER has has been a journalist with Le Nouvelliste, Metro-Express, radio station CKVL, and La Presse. He was a member of the CBC-TV's Connections series, a producer for CBC's The Fifth Estate, and was a reporter with Le Journal de Montreal until his retirement in 2006. In 2000, he was shot several times in the back, probably by bikers in retaliation for his crime reporting, and wrote about it in The Biker Who Shot Me.