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The Wolfpack

The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld

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The Wolfpack

Written by: Peter Edwards, Luis Najera
Narrated by: Juan Chioran, Luis Najera
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Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, 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.

A man watching the Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling 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 lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies - but there was nothing isolated about them.

In this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce listeners 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.

©2021 Peter Edwards and Luis Najera (P)2021 Penguin Random House Canada
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Intriguing Canadian Story

This interesting historical account of the drug trade is a sad reflection on the good people of Canada.
Beware of the foul language.
God bless dumb criminals.

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Riveting read

well put together account of the Canadian underworld figures, especially interesting if you have some familiarity with the cast of characters covered here. it can be somewhat hard to follow if you dont.

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great current story.

only complaint, and its minor, the jumping around of dates of certain events gets tricky to follow. this is possibily a side effect of listening to it and not holding the book in my hands so I can't refer back easily. otherwise well done. actually I have a second complaint after listening to it again. often quotes of text messages are read poorly, not matching the context provided. the narrator seemed to over due it at times trying to sound sinister..

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Your reality isn’t

What you thought reality was is about to change after reading this. This journalism goes to great depths to put you in the front seat of the criminal underworld. Amazing book!

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performance needs an oscar

narrator has good energy finished book in a couple days!over book was very entertaining

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Informative

Sheds ligh on the drugs. violence. Enormity of the extent of organized crime in Canada and Mexico

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tres bien

I could see this informing an entertaining film adaptation, but I don't think it could be better than Juan Chioran's reading of this material.

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Very good, especially if you know the area.

The book is a good and detailed telling of murder for hire and drug smuggling made better if you are familiar with the Toronto and Niagara region. The reading of text message communication adds so much detail, it almost becomes distracting to the story. The audiobook itself is well read.

Not as entertaining as Scores by Michael Blutrich but an entertaining glimpse into organized crime in Ontario and how it interacted with the Cartel.

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Great insight into Canadian OC

This is a one of a kind book! The only part of the book I did not understand was the foreword! Who was this? They said they saw, as a citizen observer a container of Marijuana in the middle of a Vancouver street... This is not believable and killed any credibility. The rest of the book was very informative!

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Hilarious narrator

Narrator constantly uses a NY “wise guy” accent for people from Montreal and Ontario. Pretty funny. Made me laugh every time and forced me to re-cite to myself in hoser/quebecois accents.

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