On Monday, November 14, 1983, the body of Paul Volpe was found in the trunk of his car in the parking lot at Toronto International Airport. He had been shot several times in the head at close range with a small-calibre weapon. The life and crimes of one of the most prominent mob bosses in Canada had come to an end.Paul Volpe’s rise to power in the Canadian Mafia, from his youthful career as a delivery boy for his family’s bootlegging business to his golden days in the mid 1970s as ...

On April 1,1986, CBC-TV's the fifth estate broadcast a lead item entitled “Mistress to the Mob”. In the program, a former playgirl with Hamilton's notorious Papalia crime family spoke frankly of her life within the mob, of the events that led her to become an undercover operative with the “family”, and of her present life as a protected witness, living under an assumed name in a city far from Hamilton. The woman was Shirley Ryce, and Mob Mistress is her s...

The result of more than ten years of research by one of Canada’s top investigative journalists, Dragons of Crime is the first book-length expose of the Chinese and Vietnamese gangs in North America. For the first time, all the mysterious elements of Asian crime are uncovered, from the history and growth of the triads, tongs and gangs to the present-day structures and activities, including:an investigative account of how the Kung Lok triad got started...

Originally published in New York in 1928, this book announced the coming of the urban novel in Canada through the story of Harry Trotter—a "hero" who cannot escape his tendancy toward brutality. Incapable of reflection, he does not realize that he has become a thug, believing instead that if he feels good, things must be right.