Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Dobyns, Jay; Johnson-Shelton, Nils |
| Publisher: | Crown |
| Date: | 2/2/2010 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle ofthe outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-monthoperation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shotin the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highwayat 100 mph, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angelsand their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiencesDobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard-to-imagine-but-true story.
Dobyns leavesno stone of his harrowing journey unturned. At runs and clubhouses, between ridesand riots, Dobyns befriends bad-ass bikers, meth-fueled “old ladies,” gun fetishists,psycho-killer ex-cons, and even some of the “Filthy Few”–the elite of the Hells Angelswho’ve committed extreme violence on behalf of their club. Eventually, at partiesstaged behind heavily armed security, he meets legendary club members such as ChuckZito, Johnny Angel, and the godfather of all bikers, Ralph “Sonny” Barger. To blendin with them, he gets full-arm ink; to win their respect, he vows to prove himselfa stone-cold killer.
Hardest of all is leading a double life, which has him tornbetween his devotion to his wife and children, and his pledge to become the firstfederal agent ever to be “fully patched” into the Angels’ near-impregnable act is so convincing that he comes within a hairsbreadth of losing , he realizes that just as he’s been infiltrating the Hells Angels, they’ ve been infiltrating him. And just as they’re not all bad, he’s not all good.
Reminiscentof Donnie Brasco’s uncovering of the true Mafia, this is an eye-opening portraitof the world of bikers–the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson’s seminal work—onethat fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who wouldotherwise be powerless outsiders. Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation,but also the freedom—and, yes, brotherhood—of the only truly American form of organizedcrime.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.