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ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS Suggested Non Fiction |
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Hells Angels at war: The Alarming Story Behind the Headlines |
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by Yves Lavigne |
by William Marsden & Julian Sher |
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Hells Angels At War
is the explosive story of the bikers' ruthless
and bloody campaign for supremacy in the underworld of organized
crime.
Veteran investigative
reporter and best-selling author Yves Lavigne exposes the deadly politics
and tactics used by outlaw motorcycle gangs as they fight for control of
drug territory across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The Hells Angels are
the most violent and cunning of them all.
For 20 years police
across Canada-for their own political ends-have raised the specter of
Hells Angels' invasions. Yet, when the biker wars started, the police were
unprepared and powerless to protect the public. In fact, the only threat
posed to the Hells Angels in the past decade has come not from law
enforcement agencies but from an outraged public as the biker wars claim
the lives of innocent bystanders. |
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 felons 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. |
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Other books by Yves Lavigne |
Other books by Julian Sher |
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Death Dealers: A Witness to the Drug Wars That Are Bleeding America (1999) |
The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada (2004) |
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Good Guy, Bad Guy (1991) |
The Road to Hell is the story of how the Hells Angels have taken over the Canadian crime scene: how politicians dithered while overburdened prosecutors burned out and lost major cases; how police brass squabbled while a handful of dedicated cops worked years to amass their evidence; how a few citizens stood up the bikers and paid for that bravery with their lives. Murder plots, drug deals, money laundering and assassinations are brought to life through never-before- revealed police files, wiretaps and surveillance tapes. In gripping prose, the authors tell all about Boucher’s war on the justice system; how he finally lost in Quebec, thanks in part to Danny Kane, a reluctant biker turned informer; but how across Canada the Hells Angels have succeeded in building a national crime empire |
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Hell’s Angels: Into the Abyss (1997) |
"Until You Are Dead": Steven Truscot's Long Ride Into History (2002) |
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Hell's Angels: Taking Care of Business (2000) |
White Hoods: Canada's Ku Klux Klan (1983) |
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Hell's Angels: Three Can Keep a Secret If Two Are Dead (1989) |
One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators (2007) |
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