Hell To Pay: Hells Angels vs. The Million-Dollar Rat

by Neal Hall

The fact that Michael Plante was a trusted associate of the East End Hells Angels certainly caught the attention of police, who had been trying for years to find someone to infiltrate the gang. The police alleged that East End Hells Angels were well known in the criminal underworld for controlling the cocaine trade at a wholesale level, using violence to persuade potential competition to stay away. In recent years the bikers had expanded into the production and distribution of synthetic drugs as ecstasy and methamphetamine, know on the street as crystal meth, as well as moving into internet porn and online gambling, police claimed. Plante was taken to an interview room where he was visited by two Mounties, who would eventually become his police handlers. … One of the officers told him that, based on the witness statement relating to his extortion charges, he was looking at doing prison time. But Plante was told that if he was interested in cooperating, the police would make the charges go away. Plante told the cop he was interested but hesitant, knowing that people who cooperate with the police in Hells Angels investigations usually end up dead. … The only good rat is a dead rat, he had been told repeatedly.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 21, 2011

Reviews

[Shelley L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vancouver's East End chapter of the Hells Angels is the main focus of this book. The police alleged that East End Hells Angels were well known in the criminal underworld for controlling the cocaine trade at a wholesale level, using violence to persuade potential competition to stay away.

Plante was taken to an interview room where he was visited by two Mounties, who would eventually become his police handlers. … One of the officers told him that, based on the witness statement relating to his extortion charges, he was looking at doing prison time. But Plante was told that if he was interested in cooperating, the police would make the charges go away. Plante told the cop he was interested but hesitant, knowing that people who cooperate with the police in Hells Angels investigations usually end up dead. … The only good rat is a dead rat, he had been told repeatedly.

[Jackie Haliburton · Rating 1 out of 5]

A full play by play of an uninteresting story.
How someone could think this is worth publishing is a much bigger mystery than I could imagine.
The story of how this crap was published would make a better book but not if it was written by this "author" ha ha ha.
Reading the phone book would be far more interesting.
Talentless, is what comes to mind when I think of the writer.
Avoid this crap .

[Ngaio · Rating 2 out of 5]

More of a play by play of the investigation and court cases. The author doesn't include very much biographical information on the people involved or how any of it affected the community. There's little on the history of the Hell's Angels, but it explains the command structure alright.

Personally based on the title and the blurb I expected more, but it was okay.

[Tom Mueller · Rating 5 out of 5]

81 Vancouver member rolls.

[Iain Parke]

Dire - avoid

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