Peter Edwards is a journalist with nearly thirty years of experience, specializing in organized crime and justice issues. He has authored more than a dozen non-fiction books, nine of which focus on organized crime. His work delves into the intricate structures and motivations behind criminal activities, exploring their societal impact. Edwards offers deep insights into the shadowy world of organized crime and its effects on justice.
The narrative delves into the life of Shane Dankoski, a former gang member who escaped the grips of a dangerous criminal lifestyle. Through his journey, the book reveals the complexities of Canada's criminal underworld, highlighting themes of redemption and survival. Bestselling author Peter Edwards provides a raw and insightful exploration of Dankoski's transformation and the challenges faced in leaving behind a life of crime.
These 25 walking routes explore the island's range of landscapes, including strolls along the west coast beaches, half-day walks on rocky coastal paths, day-long mountain ridge traverses and wild country backpacking routes.
These 25 walks reflect the range of terrain in the islands and provide opportunities to experience the spectacular wildlife and the physical traces of island history.
These 25 walks explore the island's range of environments, providing opportunities to experience its spectacular wildlife and encounter the physical traces of its history.
30 wild and challenging backpacking routes in Scotland. Aimed at experienced and self-reliant backpackers, routes are between 2 and 4 days long and traverse the remotest, wildest and most spectacular landscapes the Highlands and Islands have to offer. The book also covers equipment, access, weather, safety and first aid.
Set against a backdrop of societal constraints, the story explores a passionate yet forbidden romance between two individuals from different worlds. Their love, fraught with challenges and secrecy, reveals the depths of their emotions and the sacrifices they must make. Themes of longing, societal expectations, and the pursuit of happiness intertwine as the characters navigate their tumultuous relationship, ultimately questioning what it means to truly love and be free.
"Joined by an award-winning Mexican journalist, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals the 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. Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. Targetting the old guard of Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, still led in many cases by men in their seventies and eighties and steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition, the newcomers were nothing like their predecessors. The impatient millennials leading this self-styled 'Wolfpack' were organized-crime disruptors who grew up with technology at their fingertips in a socially networked criminal underworld. They're part of Canada's most ethnically diverse generation, and their organization was as inclusive as it is criminal. They shared an overwhelming sense of entitlement, with a self-assuredness that astonished their rivals but left them foolishly exposed to law enforcement, enemies and the force in global crime they were arrogant enough to think they could handle doing business with. The dominant and most violent force in the global narcotics trade through the 2000s, Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels, recognized the naivety of their eager new customers up north and invited themselves to Canada to take advantage. In times of chaos and collapsing orders, disruptors rule. But was this new gang the new underworld order, or just the latest challenger in an ongoing upheaval in the wake of Rizzuto's death? The bloody answers are in The Wolfpack."-- Provided by publisher
Focusing on the influential career of Robert Marsden Hope, this biography explores his pivotal role in shaping Australia's intelligence agencies and their accountability. Commissioned by three Prime Ministers, Hope conducted significant inquiries that established crucial operational doctrines and legislative frameworks. Additionally, the book delves into broader themes such as environmental policy history, the role of judges as Royal Commissioners, and insights into judicial appointments and political events, particularly the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
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