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“A chilling exploration… into a dark, often hidden battle unfolding in the shadows of our world.”
-Jacques Duchesneau, former Montreal Chief of Police
For Yves (Apache) Trudeau, the blood was all business. A founding member of the Hells Angels in Canada, he did his job as an assassin so well that the bikers sometimes lent him out to other organized-crime empires in Montreal, such as the upstart Irish Mafia in the West End.
Eventually, fearful of his own life from rival bikers, he turned government informant and confessed to his crimes, which included killing forty-three people. But as a witness, Trudeau was a disaster. His testimony led to so many acquittals that prosecutors avoided him. And the controversial sweetheart deal he got -- only seven years behind bars for all his murders -- sparked outrage.
Few people realize that Canada's deadliest killer was not well-known convicted men like Clifford Olsen or Robert Pickford but a relentless biker assassin. Or that Trudeau's killing spree in the 1970s and 1980s during which he went untouched by law enforcement for 15 years helped lay the groundwork for the deadly biker wars of the 1990s and the rise of Maurice "Mom" Boucher.
At a time today when continues to be plagued by organized crime and violence, Hitman is a timely look at how our justice and police system is failing to protect citizens. It tells the story of ordinary citizens scarred to this day by Trudeau's dirty work and the handful of determined police and prosecutors who took on the bikers.
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