The The Enforcer: The True Saga Of A Mafia Boss

by Adrian Humphreys

Overview

Shortly after lunch on May 31, 1997, Johnny Papalia-also known as Johnny Pops, Canada's Capone, Godfather or The Enforcer-was gunned down outside his office at 10 Railway Street in Hamilton, Ontario.

For close to forty years, gangsters across Canada had bowed to the fearsome will of Johnny Pops Papalia, a Mafia chieftain who grew up in a working-class ghetto and rose to hold a tenuous grip on organized crime. Journalist Adrian Humphreys followed the life, business and influence of Papalia, and using an intriguing selection of sources-from gangsters and street rogues to police and honest citizens-he recreates that shadowy world and reveals a man who could be as brutal as he was generous. The Enforcer takes the reader inside the Mafia's inner sanctum and reveals the power this organization still wields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443438353
Publisher:	HarperCollins Canada
Publication date:	02/17/2015
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ADRIAN HUMPHREYS is a senior national reporter at the National Post. An award-winning journalist and author of three critically acclaimed non-fiction books, Adrian is one of the founding journalists of the newspaper. His exposes of underworld life have been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world and turned into movies and television documentaries. He is the author of two other bestsellers: The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob and The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto, an epic mob saga that has been published in three languages.