The drug cartels of Mexico are some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. How did they get to Southern Ontario?

The Wolfpack is a book by organized-crime author Peter Edwards and award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Horacio Nájera that introduces an assortment of millennial gangsters, bikers and Mafia. Their bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival of Mexican’s drug cartels in Canada.

Many members of the ‘Wolfpack Alliance’ are stationed in the Niagara Region.

“It kind of makes sense because it’s a good route to bring [drugs] in through Buffalo,” Edwards said. “There’s a lot of trucks, a lot of cover…and there are a lot of storage facilities. To bring [drugs] from Buffalo or Chicago, through Niagara to Toronto is a logical route for trucking.”

Nájera says The Wolfpack Alliance is different from the criminals of the past because they do not follow the unwritten rules of organized crime and they show off their criminal lifestyle on social media.

“The new generations [of criminals] are more prone to be flamboyant in their behavior,” Nájera said. “They want to be influencers.”

Peter Edwards is the bestselling author of 15 non-fiction books and one young adult novel. Edwards is the first ever beat reporter on organized crime for the Toronto Star. He has been awarded an eagle feather from the Union of Ontario Indians and a gold medal from the Centre for Human Rights.

Luis Horacio Nájera is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008 after death threats were made against him in Mexico.

The Wolfpack is out now and can be bought here.