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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.