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Search - Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire

Angels of Death Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire
Author: William Marsden, Julian Sher

The award-winning authors of The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada bring us a definitive, up-to-the-minute account of the Hells Angels and the international biker network. — Marsden and Sher explain how the expansion of America?s foremost motorcycle gang has allowed this once ragtag group of rebels, outcasts and felon... more »s to become one of the world?s most sophisticated criminal organizations. While the media has continued to toast the Hells Angels California leader, Sonny Barger, as an American legend, the facts tell another story ? they are America?s major crime export. With an estimated 2,500 full-patch members in 25 countries, the Hells Angels have inspired a global subculture of biker gangs that are among the most feared and violent underworld players.

Angels of Death takes readers to Arizona, inside the biggest American police undercover operation to infiltrate the bikers; to British Columbia where wealthy bikers dominate the organized crime pyramid; to Australia where the ?bikies? shoot it out with police; to Curaçao where terrorist organizations funnel drugs to Dutch bikers; and to the streets of Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki where a murderous biker war saw rocket attacks and bombs turn Scandinavia into a war zone.

For the first time, police officers who have infiltrated biker gangs tell their secrets ? revealing the challenges, fears and horrors they?ve discovered going undercover. Sher and Marsden take the reader behind the latest headlines to tell the story of how the Hells Angels became so powerful, and how the police ? with only a few successes ? have tried to stop them.

Excerpt from Angels of Death:

Three murderous evenings, three different continents, three faces of the Angels of death: the killing of innocents, the killing of fellow bikers, and the killing of cops.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of lives ruined, brains fried, bodies withered by the methamphetamines, cocaine and other drugs pushed by the bikers.

And yet while the body count kept mounting, Sonny Barger, the Californian patriarch and international leader of the Hells Angels, was being feted by the international media as he promoted his latest bestselling book. Even the usually thoughtful British press fell for the rebel Yankee. The Times called him, ?affable, big-hearted, warm.?

The Independent labelled him an ?American legend.?

And in many ways he is.

ISBN-13: 9780676977301
ISBN-10: 0676977308
Publication Date: 4/12/2006
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Knopf Canada
Book Type: Hardcover
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Politics & Social Sciences >> Crime & Criminals >> Criminology
Biographies & Memoirs >> True Crime >> True Crime

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