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THE ENFORCER

Johnny Pops Papalia: A Life and Death in the Mafia
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HarperCollins, Toronto, 1999.  ISBN 0-00-638493-5.  MMPB, 408 pages including Acknowledgements, Notes, Bibliography and Index.  Wraps have light edge and cover wear, light crease near lower front spine edge, reading creases on spine.  Binding sound with a slight lean; bit of age spotting on outer page block.  Prior owner’s name inked on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white photo plate section.  ‘Shortly after lunch, on May 31, 1997, Johnny Papalia – a man known as Johnny Pops, Canada’s Capone, Godfather, and The Enforcer – was gunned down outside his office at 20 Railway Street in Hamilton.  For close to 40 years, gangsters across Canada bowed to the fearsome will of Johnny Pops Papalia, a Mafia chieftain who rose from a working-class ghetto to hold a tenuous grip on organized crime.  Journalist Adrian Humphreys followed the life, business and influence of Papalia and using an intriguing blend of sources – from gangsters and street rogues to police and honest citizens – he recreates that shadowy world and reveals a man who could be as brutal as he was generous.  The Enforcer takes the reader inside the Mafia’s inner sanctum and reveals the power it wields.’ (from rear wrap)

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