The Globe and Mail hailed The Sixth Family as a “Machiavellian mystery tour of the mob underworld.” Two of Canada’s top crime journalists chronicle a 40-year war waged by a Montreal crime family to become the world’s wealthiest and most influential Mafia clan. To ensure its control over the North American heroin trade, three members of the Bonanno Family of New York met a bloody end in Brooklyn in 1981. One of the architects of the murders is Vito Rizzuto, head of the Montreal family.
The story of Vito Rizzuto is steeped in Mafia tradition. Rizzuto was fluent in three languages and a consummate businessman. He carried power elegantly. He was never one to be crossed. And he always seemed to evade the law—until the FBI issued a warrant for his arrest.
An engaging and colorful narrative of New York’s Five Families and the Montreal Mafia over the past 40 years
1. Crime scenes re-created from police files and actual dialogue from wiretaps
2. Complete trial coverage of Vito Rizzuto
3. The subsequent arrests of more than 80 individuals in Quebec on criminal charges
4. The future of the Montreal Mafia with Rizzuto behind bars
One of the top books in the canon of Mafia literature. For every fan of The Godfather or The Sopranos.
