Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Najera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals would-be successors to Vito Rizzuto's criminal dominance, a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada's doorstep of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations- the drug cartels of Mexico.
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.
LUIS HORACIO N JERA is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst
from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008. Najera was
a reporter for Grupo Reforma based in Ciudad Juarez, a notorious
gateway to the lucrative North American drug market and widely
deemed from 2008 to 2012 the most dangerous place on Earth. He was
the PEN Canada-George Brown Writer in Residence in Toronto, and
recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freedom Award and
one of the 2011 Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammet Awards. He is a
member of Massey College and former fellow at the Citizen
Lab/Canada Centre for Global Security Studies. He received a
Master's of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto.
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
