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Charlie and the Angels: The Outlaws, the Hells Angels and the Sixty Years War
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club's story is told here for the first time, by criminal underworld author and former infiltrator Alex Caine. They are the original biker gang, and their sixty years of war with the Hells Angels is the stuff of legend.
Right down to their signature logo (a skull known as "Charlie"), the McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club, formed in 1935, defined the look and sensibility of the twentieth-century biker. In the 1950s, a rising gang of toughs in California threatened to steal their thunder. But, recognizing an opportunity for expansion, the Outlaws reached out. The nascent Hells Angels sent them home to Chicago, beaten, humiliated and forever bent on the Angels' destruction.
Sixty years and thousands of maimed and murdered later, the Hells Angels are a dominant criminal empire. The Outlaws, loosely allied with the number-two club in the biker universe, the Bandidos, sit contentedly as the number-three power, though they rule in places like the UK, the Great Lakes, Florida and the US Midwest. Less concerned with making money than the Angels, they continue to define the vicious biker character like few of their peers.
Working undercover, Alex Caine witnessed the buffering of the big clubs' US turfs in a Bandidos-mediated truce between the Outlaws and Angels in the 1980s. But like every deal between bikers, that one soured, and a storm of unimaginable violence and scope is brewing. The alliance is expanding and determined to unseat the Angels for once and for all.
Right down to their signature logo (a skull known as "Charlie"), the McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club, formed in 1935, defined the look and sensibility of the twentieth-century biker. In the 1950s, a rising gang of toughs in California threatened to steal their thunder. But, recognizing an opportunity for expansion, the Outlaws reached out. The nascent Hells Angels sent them home to Chicago, beaten, humiliated and forever bent on the Angels' destruction.
Sixty years and thousands of maimed and murdered later, the Hells Angels are a dominant criminal empire. The Outlaws, loosely allied with the number-two club in the biker universe, the Bandidos, sit contentedly as the number-three power, though they rule in places like the UK, the Great Lakes, Florida and the US Midwest. Less concerned with making money than the Angels, they continue to define the vicious biker character like few of their peers.
Working undercover, Alex Caine witnessed the buffering of the big clubs' US turfs in a Bandidos-mediated truce between the Outlaws and Angels in the 1980s. But like every deal between bikers, that one soured, and a storm of unimaginable violence and scope is brewing. The alliance is expanding and determined to unseat the Angels for once and for all.
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272 pages, Hardcover
First published November 2, 2010
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September 21, 2015
This book had excellent information on outlaw bikers, mainly the war between the Hells Angels and the AOA (Outlaws). The book is slightly biased toward the outlaws. It has less respect for the Hells Angels. Thus, it can be a little intimidating for those who like the angels. Still, it is worth reading because it explains the relentless hate and war between the two groups. It is a fascinating read!
February 17, 2017
Un livre intéressant sur le fond, écrit par un auteur qui semble s'y connaître énormément, mais qui malheureusement manque de style ( le tout est écrit de façon très journalistique, un résume et résume des faits, ce qui devient un peu lassant par moment) et manque de profondeur. Je croyais et j'espérais en apprendre plus sur le monde des motards, mais on se retrouve surtout à lire des anecdotes répétitives qui tournent souvent autour d'une bataille/tuerie/conflit entre des gangs rivaux.
February 3, 2022
I bought this book because I really liked Befriend and Betray. And I was enjoying this book up untill the chapters about Australia, to which I know majority of his information is dead wrong ( which made me wonder about his other info), I wouldn’t say don’t read it just take the info with a grain of salt. It was okay but befriend and betray and fat Mexican we’re much better reads
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