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Business or blood : Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto's last war

Edwards, Peter, 1956- (Author). Nicaso, Antonio. (Added Author).

A biography of Canadian Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto with a focus on his final years after his release from prison.

Book  - 2015
364.1092 Rizzu -E
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  • ISBN: 0345813766
  • ISBN: 9780345813763
  • Physical Description xviii, 311 pages : illustrations, map
  • Publisher Toronto : Random House Canada, 2015.

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Business or Blood : Vito Rizzuto's Fight for Revenge and Control of the North American Drug Trade
Business or Blood : Vito Rizzuto's Fight for Revenge and Control of the North American Drug Trade
by Edwards, Peter; Nicaso, Antonio
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Business or Blood : Vito Rizzuto's Fight for Revenge and Control of the North American Drug Trade


Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade.        Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. From the events leading to his imprisonment to his shocking death in December 2013, Business or Blood is the final chapter of Vito's story.