This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten
Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian
crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for
years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and
murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across
the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be
hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made lake Champlain a
battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good they fooled even
bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder in their escape
from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered banks and trains in
Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United States. Among them were
Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony about the brutal
conditions in the Kingston Penittentiary may have brought about his
untimely death in "The Hole"; and John "Red" Hamilton, the Canadian-born
member of the legendary Dillinger gang.