Shortly after lunch on May 31, 1997, Johnny Papalia-also known as Johnny Pops, Canada's Capone, Godfather or The Enforcer-was gunned down outside his office at 10 Railway Street in Hamilton, Ontario.

For close to forty years, gangsters across Canada had bowed to the fearsome will of Johnny Pops Papalia, a Mafia chieftain who grew up in a working-class ghetto and rose to hold a tenuous grip on organized crime. Journalist Adrian Humphreys followed the life, business and influence of Papalia, and using an intriguing selection 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 this organization still wields.

ADRIAN HUMPHREYS is the senior crime reporter for the National Post. His exposés of underworld life have been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest. He is the author of the national bestselling biography The Enforcer: Johnny Pops Papalia, a Life and Death in the Mafia and the epic mob saga The Sixth Family, which was a bestseller in both of Canada's official languages and will be published in Italian this year in Rome. He is principal consultant for the popular History Television series Mob Stories and Mob Stories II.

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