Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire (Paperback)
William Marsden (author), Julian Sher (author)Published: 31/05/2007
The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image.
But the facts tell another story. The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries including the UK, Australia and Holland, where they have inspired a violent subculture of biker gangs who traffick drugs and suppress any attempt to stop them.
ANGELS OF DEATH opens at the darkest moment of the Hell's Angels story, with the beheading of a woman at a chapter meeting. It tells the true story of the bikers, their crime empire and the attempt of the police to stop them - with only a few successes.
With eyewitness accounts from police officers who have infiltrated the gangs and gang members who have turned informers, and undercover interviews with the bikers themselves, this is a chilling insight into the world's fastest growing crime empire.
N.B. Also includes exclusive material from the leaders of the Hells Angels - Sonny Barger and George Christie - who have agreed to be interviewed for the book.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340898338
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 36 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'This is a fascinating and disturbing study of a group of macho outsiders in the modern world. There is a terrific movie just waiting to be made out of this book.' - Daily Mail
'Frightening stuff ... a virtual anthology of badness; 452 pages of documented murder and mayhem perpetrated by the worst of the worst.' - Sun Herald
A true crime book that reads like a fiction thriller - Canadian Press on THE ROAD TO HELL by Marsden and Sher
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I quite enjoyed this book, it was interesting and easy to read did provide a good introduction to the criminal side of the Hells Angels organisation. Obviously, as the authors are Canadian journalists, i does have a... More
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Just another collection of readily-available information - much of which is NOT at all factual. How do I know? I am IN the book and what was written about me couldn't be further from the truth.
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