Merchants of Misery: Illegal Drug Trade in Canada

Victor Malarek is one of Canada?s leading investigative journalists and well known for his new book The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade. Whereas the Natashas is about the third most profitable crime in the world (the trafficking in human beings), Merchants of Misery is about one of the top two most profitable crimes: trafficking in drugs. What I especially like in both books is that Malarek shows the horror and the hope. He talked to the heros and the villains, to traffickers, users, informers, narcotics police, and senior drug-enforcement officers. He practically puts his life on the line in searching out the stories, going into clandestine drug labs, visiting a crack house, and going with the police on dangerous sweeps of heroin shooting-galleries. He looks at the many trafficking networks: Iranian network and the Vietnamese triads, the Jamaican posses and the Russian Mafia, the biker gangs and the prosperous professionals, each of whom dominate a corner of the billion-dollar trade. We see how banks in Canada and outside act as the dealers' silent partners in large-scale international money laundering schemes. This book, like The Natashas, is definitely worth a read. Every thing he writes will change your view of life, will change your life.