Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death, a novel by Alex Markman, takes the reader into the frightening and fascinating world of bikers’ turf wars and encounters with the law. Inspired by gang wars in Quebec, Canada, in the late 1990s, Messenger of Death follows the lifestyle of the fictitious gangsters of two biker gangs, the Devil’s Knights and the Iron Ghosts. The Knights’ and the Ghosts’ illegal drug trade in a Canadian province expands to the point where they can’t co-exist. In the terrifying drama of violence that follows, police and the criminal courts are helpless to stop the war. Although penetration of the gang by an informant is impossible, when the police corner Knight’s hit man, Claude, he agrees to become a police informant. Spearheaded by a woman whose nephew was a victim of the bikers, the government adopts new laws, but victory over the gangs is short lived.