Antonio Nicaso is an award-winning journalist, a bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He has written several books on the subject and is best known for having published, for the first time, the "Mafia's Code."

His books have been translated in six languages.
He has been a key speaker at various symposia in Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Germany, England, Holland, South Africa and Australia.
He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University (Toronto), and on the Governing Council of The Alliance Against Contraband in Geneva, Switzerland. He teaches graduate studies on History of Organized Crime at Middlebury College, Vermont.

Frequently quoted by the media, Nicaso has been interviewed by print and broadcast journalists around the world as a Mafia expert. Also he is a regular commentator on OMNI News (Every Friday 8:45 pm).

Highlights from his list of publications include: Alle origini della 'ndrangheta: la picciotteria (1990); Gli usurpatori e gli usurpati (1990); Deadly Silence: Canadian Mafia Murders (1993); 'Ndranghete: le filiali della mafia calabrese (1994); Io e la mafia: le verità di Giulio Andreotti (1995); Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized Crime (1995), which has been translated in French (Dans les coulisses du crime organisé: le rôle stratégique du Canada à l'aube du 21e siècle, 1996), Dutch (De wereldwijde maffia: de nieuwe wereldorde van de georganiseerde misdaad, 1996), Hungarian (A maffia: A szervezett bûnözés új világrendszere, 1997), and Indonesian (Mafia Global: sebuah ekspose mega-kejahatan masa kini). Bloodlines: the rise and the fall of the Mafia's Royal Family (2001), which has been translated in French (Les liens du sang: l'apogée et la chute d'une grande famille de la mafia, 2001); Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger (2004) which has been translated in Italian (Il Piccolo Gatsby, 2006; Angels, Mobsters and Narco-Terrorists: The Rising Menace of Global Criminal Empires (2005), which has been translated in French (Trafic de drogue, 2006), Fratelli di sangue (co-authored with Italian magistrate Nicola Gratteri, 2006), Senza Onore, antologia di testi letterari sulla 'ndrangheta (2007), 'Ndrangheta: Le radici dell'odio (2007), Il Grande Inganno: I disvalori della 'ndrangheta (with Nicola Gratteri and Michele Borrelli, 2008), Fratelli di sangue, storie, boss e affari della 'ndrangheta, la mafia piu' potente del mondo (with Nicola Gratteri, 2009), which has been translated in Dutch (Bloedbroeders, 2009); Cosenza: 'ndrine, sangue e coltelli (with Nicola Gratteri and Valerio Giardina, 2009), La malapianta (with Nicola Gratteri, 2010), La mafia spiegata ai ragazzi (2010), and La giustizia e' una cosa seria (with Nicola Gratteri, 2011).

Nicaso is also a contributing author to the following volumes: Utopia e rivoluzione in Calabria: scritti in onore di Enzo Misefari (1993), Un'altra Calabria: lo sviluppo della regione nelle idee dei calabresi della diaspora (1997), Organized Crime & Money Laundering: The Globalization Revolution - A Business Reference for the 'New Economy' (2001), La scuola Italiana di Middlebury (1996-2005) - (2005) and Chromosomes, a project by David Cronemberg (2008).

Nicaso's books are listed as "strongly recommended reading" in many universities, including: Carleton and York.

Awards:
- The Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation,
Queen's Park, Toronto, 1993.
- Premio Pericle d'oro per il giornalismo, Bovalino, RC, Italy, 1994.
- Premio Calabriamerica per il giornalismo, Gioia Tauro, RC, Italy, 1997.
- Premio Civilta' del Mare per il giornalismo, Bagnara Calabra, RC, Italy, 2001.
- Premio Val di Sole per il giornalismo, Folgarida, Dimaro, Trentino Alto Adige, 2003.
- Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association, Professional Excellence  Award 2003. 
- Gerbera Gialla per il giornalismo e la saggistica, Riferimenti, Fondazione Caponnetto, Catanzaro, 2007.
- Premio Comunicazione per la saggistica - Parrocchia di Santa Marina - Comunita' di San Pio - Melicucca di Dinami, 2007.
- Premio Cristo d'Argento, in memoria di Giannino Losardo, Diamante, 2008.
- Ambasciatore di Caulonia nel mondo, 2010.
- Premio Ragusani nel mondo, 2010.
- Premio Legalita', Zumpano, 2011.