Book review: "Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan" by André Cédilot and André Noël, translated by Michael Gilson If you ever drive to Montreal, from either Ontario or the United States, you will surely notice that the moment you enter Quebec, the road becomes extremely bad. It only gets worse once you start living in Montreal. "Crumbling" is the only appropriate word to describe its infrastructure. If you ever wonder why, the answer can be summarized in one word: mafia. Originally written in French by two veteran investigative reporters of La Presse , the largest French daily newspaper in Montreal, "Mafia Inc." is, in my humble opinion, the best book to learn the rise and fall of the most infamous Sicilian crime family in Canada, the Rizzutos. One episode of their story has been immortalized on the silver screen in "Donnie Brasco (1997)" . The authors took pain not to romanticize the life of the mafiosi, a...
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