Dany Kane was a chameleon and a mass of contradictions: Hells Angels hit man and police informant, family man and patron of gay personal ads, steroid-crazed thug and charming joker. He was also the “super-source” for the RCMP and later the Sûreté du Québec in their efforts to end one of North America’s longest and bloodiest gang wars ever, the battle to control the illegal drug business in Quebec and beyond. Kane’s dangerous double life caused him much anxiety, but it resulted in the spectacular “Springtime 2001” busts in which police rounded up some 120 gang members and associates on murder and drug charges. The many casualties of the Quebec biker wars included a female prison guard and an eleven-year-old Montreal boy, killed in a car bombing. But by then Kane was dead, the victim of a highly questionable suicide mere weeks before he was to receive a huge payout and a new identity.
Full of rich, epic stories involving, among others, the infamous Mom Boucher, Scott Steinert, Walter Stadnick, and Aimé Simard, Hell’s Witness chronicles the deadly acts of terror, the odious villains, and the dubious heroes of the Quebec biker war through a compelling and intimate portrait of a small-town hood with big ambition.
"The fascinating, but slim genre of books about biker culture is deeply enriched by Daniel Sanger's gripping account of hit-man-turned-police-informant Dany Kane. Not since Mick Lowe's Conspiracy of Brothers, published almost twenty years ago, has a book about Canada's biker-gang underworld been as ambitiously researched and carefully crafted as Hell's Witness. It is the book that was crying out to be written about the Quebec biker wars." —Derek Finkle, author of No Claim to Mercy and editor of Toro magazine
"There are so few men like Dany Kane in the annals of Canadian crime that their morally ambiguous stories must be thoroughly probed in very public ways. In Hell's Witness, Daniel Sanger does that with wry humour, impeccable style, and carefully recreated splashes of brutal action, bringing to life a complex character, a disturbing criminal milieu, and the behind-the-scenes handling of a significant police informant. Who knew such an ugly story could be told so beautifully?" —Adrian Humphreys, author of The Enforcer
