From the award-winning author of Mafia Confession: "King of Bootleggers" Murder and City of Betrayal: The Genovese Family's Springfield Crew comes his most explosive true crime chronicle yet, Outlaw Bikers and the Mob.
Montreal was always a city of shadows. The cobblestones told stories, but the real power pulsed beneath, in smoky backrooms, strip-club VIP lounges, and the hush of late-night meetings where names were never said out loud.
This wasn't fiction. It wasn't a movie.
This was the underworld's frontline.
And for a time, it was ruled by an unholy alliance: the Sicilian Mafia and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
On one side, the Rizzuto Crime Family, old-world Cosa Nostra royalty. They wore suits, not cuts. Their power whispered in boardrooms, on construction sites, and in judges' offices. At their head was Vito Rizzuto, calculating, ruthless, respected. A mafia prince who ruled Montreal like an emperor.
On the other, the Hells Angels, outlaws in leather, forged in rebellion and baptized in violence. They didn't ask permission. They took what they wanted with chrome pistols and fists wrapped in steel. Under bosses like Maurice "Mom" Boucher, they became more than a gang. They became an army.
And then they partnered up.
The Mafia had the money, the political reach, the international connections.
The bikers had the muscle, the street control, and the balls to do the dirty work.
Together, they built a billion-dollar criminal empire that turned Montreal into a global smuggling hub. Cocaine, meth, hash, cash, guns, and women all flowing through the city's veins like blood in a wounded animal.
But power like that never holds.
This is the story of their rise, and their collapse.
A tale of blood oaths, backroom deals, and betrayals in the dead of night. Of sons who couldn't live up to their fathers. Of killers who turned into businessmen, and businessmen who became butchers. A war fought not in deserts or jungles, but in caf©s, parking lots, and quiet cul-de-sacs, where car bombs and sniper fire replaced diplomacy.
You'll meet the men who ran it all:
- Vito Rizzuto - the mob boss who kept peace with charm and fear.
- Mom Boucher - the biker general who started a war with the state.
- Leonardo Rizzuto - the lawyer who didn't want the throne but took it anyway.
- Marty Robert - the biker enforcer turned shot-caller, now threatening to rewrite the balance of power again.
This is a street-level retelling of the blood pact that once held Montreal's underworld in check and the violent unraveling that followed.
You won't find good guys here.
Only survivors, predators, and ghosts circling the same carcass.
This is the story of the Brotherhood. And how it bled.
