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Adrian Humphreys
author, journalist, underworld observer
The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto
By Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys
(Wiley; August 2006; hardcover)
In their new book, The Sixth Family, authors Adrian Humphreys and Lee Lamothe chronicle a 40-year war by a Montreal family to become the world's wealthiest and most influential Mafia clan – a “perfect” Mafia that has now eclipsed the notorious Five Families of New York and the bloody clans of Sicily.
The Sixth Family is the chilling modern-day underworld saga of a criminal cult, deftly researched and compellingly told. It provides an unparalleled look inside the secretive and elusive underworld of murder, drugs and tangled webs of power.
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The Enforcer: Johnny Pops Papalia, a Life and Death in the Mafia
By Adrian Humphreys
(HarperCollins; December 2002; trade paperback)
Shortly after lunch on the last day of May in 1997, Johnny Papalia, a man known as Johnny Pops, Canada's Capone, Godfather and the Enforcer, was gunned down outside his office. Before he slumped, dying, to the pavement at the age of 73 – on the same small, working-class street in Hamilton, Canada, where he was born and raised – he was universally feared as one of North America's longest-reigning Mafia bosses.
After becoming a national bestseller and burning through numerous reprints, this trade paperback is a fully revised edition – with important new stories, remarkable new discoveries and updates throughout the text as well as a major new epilogue featuring Humphreys' interviews with Papalia's assassin, who is both a serial killer and a mob hit man. This edition also adds 29 new photographs to the already impressive collection. A true-crime classic in every sense, The Enforcer is an absorbing read for any fan.