Nominated for the 2006 National Business Book Award How did an economically depressed region of Canada end up generating some of North America's most innovative business leaders? By quietly-but forcefully-making offers their competitors couldn't refuse. The Codfathers is a fascinating window into the secretive world of powerful families like the Irvings, the McCains, the Sobeys, and key business tycoons like Ron Joyce, who made Tim Hortons doughnuts into a Canadian icon. It's a story of a uniquely Maritime brand of success based on traditional values, like dogged resilience, understated aggressiveness and-when necessary-uniquely colourful language! Praise for The Codfathers : "...wonderful pen portraits, conveying both idiosyncratic charm and the swashbuckling personalities of this close-knit and unusual world." - The Globe and Mail