The Weasel - by Adrian Humphreys (Paperback)

About the Book

The story of Marvin "The Weasel" Elkind, a mobster turned informer.

Book Synopsis

In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines. But a crime family has many working parts, and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog-the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher. By a quirk of fate, Marvin Elkind-The Weasel-was placed in the Toronto foster home of a tough gangster family, which immersed him from the age of nine in a daring world of con men, cheats, bootleggers, bank robbers and Mafia bosses. During a golden age of underworld life in New York, Detroit and across Canada, The Weasel found himself working with a surprising cast of colourful characters. He befriended powerful gangsters by smuggling bottles of Scotch to their tables at New York's famed Copacabana, and he was pushed to be Jimmy Hoffa's chauffeur. But his disenchantment with broken promises put him in the hands of law enforcement, and he made an abrupt career change, becoming Canada's most prolific police informant. As he travelled the world befriending and betraying a stunning array of mobsters, mercenaries, spies, drug traffickers, pornographers, union fat cats and corrupt politicians, The Weasel learned he was a far better fink than he ever was a crook.

The Weasel reveals a unique and engaging figure who lived a dangerous and rare experience.

From the Back Cover

"I started small in the mob and stayed small," says Marvin Elkind, a man known as The Weasel."My problem was that I typecast myself. I never wanted to be a boss but I wanted to do something more. I wanted it very badly. When they said no, I accepted it too easily. They looked at me as the same muscle I was when I was a kid. It showed the lack of respect the mob had for me."

But The Weasel would show them just how talented he was.

About the Author

Adrian Humphreys is an award-winning journalist and the author of two critically acclaimed bestsellers, "The Enforcer" (HarperCollins) and "The Sixth Family" (Wiley), an epic mob saga published in three languages. A senior reporter with the "National Post," his exposes of underworld life have been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world and made into movies, including Zeyda and the Hitman starring Danny Aiello as The Weasel. Adrian can be reached at mobreporter@gmail.com.