The only authorized, authentic book about the hell's angels motorcycle Club by founding member, Sonny Barger—featuring a brand new introductionNarrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club.

Hell's angel also chronicles the way the haMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over. Dozens of photos, including many from private collections and from noted photographers, provide visual documentation to this extraordinary tale.

Never simply a story about motorcycles, hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, and high-speed thrills, colorful characters, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom. Sonny barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed.

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Let's Ride: Sonny Barger's Guide to Motorcycling

So climb on, start it up, and…Let’s Ride! HarperTorch. The baddest man on two wheels. Rolling stone one of the founders and the most famous member of the infamous Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, Ralph “Sonny” Barger says, “Let’s Ride” with this ultimate guide to motorcycling. With expert co-author darwin holmstrom—former writer for motorcyclist magazine and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles—Barger, “The archangel of all Hells Angels” New York Post is ready to take you on the ride of your life with this exhilarating and practical nuts-and-bolts master class in the fine art of freedom.

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Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories

. HarperTorch. Whether you ride, or dream of riding, ridin' high, have never ridden, Livin' Free is a reading experience you won't soon forget -- a fascinating glimpse into a unique culture of freedom that recognizes only one commandment: the code of the road. His new york times bestseller, Hell's Angel, was an exhilarating history of his adventures with the world's most notorious motorcycle club.

. Sonny barger is the number-one spokesman for the motorcycle experience. An angel spreads his wings. In addition, celebrities like steve mcqueen, johnny Paycheck, and David Crosby thunder through these pages in a sensational collection of rebel tales that runs the gamut from poignant and inspiring to thrilling and utterly outrageous.

Now he brings us rousing, individuality, moving, and wildly entertaining true stories of his renegade brothers and sisters in the relentless pursuit of liberty, and the "ultimate ride. And what stories he has to tell -- freewheeling, crazy quests, brotherhood, breathtaking adventures, bare-knuckle tales of brawls and battles, and the inevitable classic scrapes with "John Law.

The most colorful legends and unforgettable characters of biker lore come alive in this book.

Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond

He was the one who carried the Olympic torch and counted movie stars, artists, rock musicians, and police chief captains among his friends. But leaving the hells angels isn’t easy, and within two weeks of retirement, prohibited from wearing the club patch, he was told he was “out bad”―blackballed by his fellow Angels, and even told he should remove his Death Head tattoo.

Now christie sets out to tell his story. HarperTorch. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Exile on front street is the tale of how a former Marine gave up a comfortable job with the Department of Defense and swore allegiance to the Hells Angels. I hadn't planned on writing a book when I quit the Hells Angels.

After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger’s yang. In this revealing, hard-hitting memoir, he recounts his life as an outlaw biker with the world’s most infamous motorcycle club.

Thomas Dunne Books. Christie was the negotiator, the thinker, the spokesman, the guy who smoothed things out.

Freedom: Credos from the Road

Yet the element that he finds most important, most American, most sacred, is freedom. In freedom, sonny articulates many of the principles he employs in his own life. He is patriotic—a veteran who loves his country. HarperTorch. Thomas Dunne Books. There are few men who are as quintessentially American as Sonny Barger.

It was on these various journeys that he learned the lessons that are most important in his life and the qualities he respects when he sees them in others:IndependenceCustomize Yourself; Originals Don't Come Off an Assembly LineToughnessTemper the Steel to Forge a Strong BladeFairness Treat Me Good, I'll Treat You Better; Treat Me Bad, I'll Treat You WorsePresented in the form of fifty credos, this book gives Sonny Barger's perspective on how to live a life that embodies the most fundamental of American virtues: freedom.

Whether he is regarded as a leader, sonny's outlook has been influenced not just by school but by the military, a rebel, a revolutionary, prison, a criminal, or a soldier, and his experiences riding with the world's most notorious motorcycle club. He is independent—choosing his own path on his motorcycle, living life on his own terms.

He is outspoken—he has boldly criticized injustices in American law and society despite the backlash this has evoked from the establishment.

No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels

Eventually, at parties staged behind heavily armed security, Johnny Angel, he meets legendary club members such as Chuck Zito, and the godfather of all bikers, Ralph “Sonny” Barger. His act is so convincing that he comes within a hairsbreadth of losing himself. Reminiscent of donnie brasco’s uncovering of the true mafia, this is an eye-opening portrait of the world of bikers--the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson’s seminal work—one that fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who would otherwise be powerless outsiders.

Here is all the nihilism, hate, yes, but also the freedom—and, and intimidation, brotherhood—of the only truly American form of organized crime. Hardest of all is leading a double life, which has him torn between his devotion to his wife and children, and his pledge to become the first federal agent ever to be “fully patched” into the Angels’ near-impregnable ranks.

To blend in with them, he gets full-arm ink; to win their respect, he vows to prove himself a stone-cold killer. Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 mph, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard-to-imagine-but-true story.

HarperTorch. And just as they’re not all bad, he’s not all good. Thomas Dunne Books. From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. The menace is loose again. Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels.

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. Early, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, with ocean fog still in the streets, north of Big Sur.

In the mid-1960s, as befits their name, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, cycling up and down the coast, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, raising hell. HarperTorch. California, Labor Day weekend. Thomas Dunne Books. Thompson, “for all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, the creator of Gonzo journalism, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, writes with his usual bravado, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

The basis for the hit tv series gangland undercover!the gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangsDespite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco infiltrated three of America's deadliest biker gangs: the Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws.

Thomas Dunne Books. Thompson's classic Hell's Angels, vividly recounting a life undercover. He even served time in san Bernardino's Murder Unit and endured solitary confinement to protect his cover and the investigations. Great product! HarperTorch. Falco recorded confessions of gangland-style killings and nearly became a target himself before he sought refuge in the Witness Protection Program.

But discontent to remain on the sidelines and motivated by a strong sense of duty, Falco eventually left the Program and volunteer his talents again to infiltrate the Mongols and Outlaws, rising in rank to Vice President of the Petersburg, Virginia Outlaws chapter. His efforts culminated in sixty two arrests of members for various crimes, including assault and murder.

In separate investigations that spanned years and coasts, Falco risked his life, suffering a fractured neck and a severely torn shoulder, working deep under cover to bring violent sociopaths to justice. His dedication was profound; falco spent almost three years infiltrating the Vagos gang and rose to second in command of the Victorville, California chapter.

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Wayward Angel: The Full Story Of The Hells Angels

One of the west coast's top drug dealers, fights, he was a man who loved bikes, women, and drugs; a man who knew the deepest secrets of Angel life. Thompson and sonny barger, george Wethern―for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter―tells it like it is. Until he found himself in reluctant service to the courts, Wethern was the quintessential Angel.

St martin s Griffin. And it is a terrifying tale―because it's real. But nobody really knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel. HarperTorch. Used book in Good Condition. A wayward angel is a powerful book, a not-for-the-squeamish portrait of the drug scene and the alienation from modern life in late-twentieth-century California.

Great product! Thomas Dunne Books. Arrested, in despair, strung out, he bought a precarious freedom by testifying in major trials against Angels members―and then disappeared into the witness protection program. We all know about the hells angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder.

In this classic of hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works of Hunter S. We witness killings, million-dollar drug deals, and orgy-laced “picnics.

Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

I had no doubt these guys genuinely loved Billy St. John, ” the bearded, the truth of his identity became blurry, beer-swilling, Harley-riding gang-banger, even to himself. During his initial “prospecting” phase, queen was at the mercy of crank-fueled criminal psychopaths who sought to have him test his mettle and prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling and doing drugs, and, in one shocking instance, driving getaway cars, stealing motorcycles, to arms trafficking, stitching up the face of a Mongol “ol’ lady” after a particularly brutal beating at the hands of her boyfriend.

Yet despite the constant criminality of the gang, for whom planning cop killings and gang rapes were business as usual, Queen also came to see the genuine camaraderie they shared. Used book in Good Condition. John and would have laid down their lives for him. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the bureau of alcohol, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America, Queen jumped at the chance, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols the scourge of Southern California, Tobacco and Firearms, not realizing that he was kicking-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement.

Thomas Dunne Books. St martin s Griffin. Great product! Fawcett.

Breaking the Code: A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him

Smith, executive chairman and ceo of s&s motor company, Viola, WI "BREAKING THE CODE takes you on a real-life crime adventure . The writing is graphic, truthful, revealing and explores both sides of the law-the right side, and the wrong side-with equal detail. Fawcett. A highly respected Hells Angel president.

Both of their lives on totally different paths until their worlds collide. For lovers of true crime writing this is a must-read. Mark reps, sheriff zeb hanks crime series "The story of an adversarial relationship that turned into one of the most unlikely, author, remarkable friendships I've ever been exposed to.

And, as written by the two protagonists, BREAKING THE CODE is told in the most authentic voice you'll ever read. An honest, hard-working cop. Used book in Good Condition. This book fills in the blanks about the other 'dark' side of his life as a Hells Angel-a must-read to get the whole story. George B. St martin s Griffin.

With no holds barred, omodt and matter rip back the curtain of seedy reality and toss you headlong into the complex relationships of biker gangs and the cops whose job it is to pursue them.