Cold War: How Organized Crime Works in Canada and Why It's Just About to Get More Violent

by Jerry Langton

Organized crime in Canada has long been dominated by the Hells Angels and their friends in the Rizzuto crime family. Over the years, they have brought many street gangs into their alliance, most notably the Indian Posse, many sets of the Crips, the Independent Soldiers and the Red Scorpions. The key to their allegiance is that, through a variety of sources, the Hells Angels and the Rizzutos could always get the commodities--marijuana, cocaine, meth, ecstasy, cash, steroids, women--that fed organized crime. But their strong-arm tactics have always created an opposition--the Cotroni family, the Musitanos, the Outlaws, the Bandidos, the Rock Machine--all less familiar names to Canadians. And the opposition is now standing up to the stalwar Canadian kingpins.

Canada's crime families, bikers and youth gangs are raging a war for supremacy across Canada, and often innocent Canadians get in the way. In Cold War, bestselling author Jerry Langton writes the history of the rivalries, the current tensions and the build-up of anti-Hells Angels/Rizzuto family forces in Canada. In unprecedented detail, Langton outlines the risk and the fallout of Canada's true-crime cold war.

Genres: Nonfiction

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 21, 2014

Reviews

[Brendan Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had really good chapters and really dull ones. The fundamental problem with the narrative style is that it got so bogged-down in names and dates that it lost narrative cohesion within chapters, and the chapters read like loosely connected pieces of journalism, only tangentially connected to the chapter preceding. There were good parts in terms of context and background, and the weaknesses find blame more from the editor's laziness than to the author's disorganization. Good information, not a great read.

[Trevor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute crap!! This guy is a hack

[Stephanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring, badly written, nothing of interest, I am not even going beyond page 50,and would rank it no stars if that was an option