A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is the life story of Ricky Atkinson, leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang, who grew up fast and hard in one of Toronto's toughest neighborhoods during the social ferment of the sixties.
A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is the...
For nearly four decades, journalist Ernest Hillen travelled from coast to coast in his adopted country of Canada and throughout the wider world, crafting stories that were sometimes amusing, occasionally bleak, often poignant--and always memorable.
A Memoir in Pieces gathers together some of his favourites. Here you will meet a Montreal-born mercenary soldier who declares "I like to fight. Once you've tasted blood, you want more." You'll sit down to a lunch of hamburgers, pickles, tea and Scotch with Canadian television icon Bob Homme (better remembered as The Friendly...
For nearly four decades, journalist Ernest Hillen travelled from coast to coast in his adopted country of Canada and throughout the wider world, cr...