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| By Jay Dobyns |
As Jay Dobyns a.k.a. “Jay Bird” gets ready to present here
in Las Vegas today, we’re very blessed that he speaks about Safe Call Now® and
the help available for all first responders out there serving all of us nationwide.
"No Angel": My Harrowing Undercover Journey to
the Inner-Circle of the Hells Angels:
A New York Times Best Seller
book by Jay Dobyns:
Getting shot through the chest as a
rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at
100 miles per hour, 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 Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard-to-imagine
yet true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.
Dobyns leaves no stone of his harrowing
journey unturned. On biker runs and at gang clubhouses, between rides and
riots, Dobyns befriends bad-ass bikers, meth-fueled "old ladies," gun
fetishists, psycho-killer ex-cons, and even some of the "Filthy Few"
- the elite of the Hells Angels who've committed extreme violence on behalf of
their club. Eventually, at parties staged behind heavily armed security, he
meets legendary members like Chuck Zito, Johnny Angel, and the Godfather of
bikers, Ralph "Sonny" Barger.
To blend in, Dobyns gets
"sleeved" (full-arm ink). To win their respect, he vows to prove
himself a stone-cold "killer". Hardest of all is leading a double
life, torn between devotion to wife and children and his pledge to become the
first federal agent to become a fully "patched" member of the Angels'
previously-impregnable ranks. His act is so convincing that he comes within a
hairsbreadth of losing himself. Eventually, he realizes that as he's been
infiltrating the Hells Angels, they've been infiltrating him. And just as
they're not all bad, he's not all good.
Reminiscent of Donnie Brasco's
uncovering of the true Mafia, this eye-opening portrait of the outlaw biker
world is one of the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson's seminal work.
"No Angel" viscerally describes the seductive lure of criminal
camaraderie for men who would otherwise be powerless, marginalized outsiders.
Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation, but also the freedom and
brotherhood of the only truly American brand of organized crime.
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