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In 2001 Jay Dobyns infiltrated a Hells Angels chapter operating in Arizona, in a highly secretive ATF investigation code named Operation Black Biscuit. The aim was simple: to examine the criminal underbelly of the world's most famous biker group, and bring a major case against them. The reality, however, was much more complicated. In the twenty-one months that he spent inside the club, Dobyns became seduced by the outlaw lifestyle: seduced by the physical menace that comes with wearing the patch; seduced by riding his Harley down the highway at 100 miles an hour, eight bikes to a column, one bike's wheels 18 inches from the next; and seduced by the intense bonds he forms within the club, where friends lay down their lives for each other. No Angel is a thrilling, adrenaline-fuelled ride of a book, which lifts the lid on the world's most infamous underworlds.

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True crime

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Publié par	Canongate Books
Date de parution	07 mai 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781847675286
Langue	English

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For Mom, Dad, Gwen, Dale, and Jack you are my heroes. And for Jaime, without whom this book would not have been possible

Contents

Bikers, Cops, and Motorcycle Clubs Involved in Operations Riverside and Black Biscuit
Note to the Reader

PART I. THE END
1. Birdcalls

PART II. THE BEGINNING
2. My sucking chest wound
3. "You’re looking at the loves of my life is what you’re looking at."
4. Hoedown at Harrah’s
5. Black Biscuit BBQ
6. Rudy wanted to know where I did my time

PART III. THE MIDDLE
7. Too broke for Sturgis, where Timmy learned the fine art of fetching sauerkraut
8. Jesus Hates a Pussy
9. First night in Mesa
10. I wanna what?
11. Why’d Jack give me that rock?
12. Teaching Teacher
13. Feeding Smitty his cake
14. "Fuck your guns!"
15. Good-bye, Carlos
16. We want you
17. Gimme a B! Gimme an I! Gimme an R! Gimme a D!
18. Five years in the desert
19. Arresting Rudy Kramer
20. Hello, JJ
21. Pep talk
22. "Motherfucker, if I ever see you in this town again I will fucking bury you in the desert where no one will ever fucking find you."
23. Inhale … Exhale … Inhale … Exhale …
24. Jingle bells, Batman smells, etc.
25. The Solo temporaries
26. Will you be mine?
27. "9-1-1! 9-1-1! Get out of the house!"
28. The Iron Skillet
29. "Look, lady, it’s not like I don’t give a fuck what you’re saying, but I don’t give a fuck what you’re saying."
30. Hoover’s hit
31. No more Solos
32. Big Lou and Gayland Hammack run some game
33. "Get me that brown mustard, not that yellow shit."

PART IV. THE END, AGAIN
34. Hydroxycut highway
35. Bottom rockers are us
36. Call to arms
37 ….
38. Hate and money
39. The bust

Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Plates
Author’s Note
Glossary
Acknowledgments

Bikers, Cops, and Motorcycle Clubs Involved in Operations Riverside and Black Biscuit
Black Biscuit Task Force Members and Associates by Agency (alphabetical by last name)
Note: The men and women listed below are the principal players found in the text. The Acknowledgments section at the end of the book contains a comprehensive list of officers involved with Black Biscuit .
ATF
Chris Bayless, special agent, aka "Chrisser" Carlos Canino, special agent, aka "Los" Vince Cefalu, special agent, aka "Vinnie" John Ciccone, special agent Greg Cowan, special agent, aka "Sugarbear" Jay Dobyns, special agent, aka "Bird" Alan Futvoye, special agent, aka "Footy" Steve Gunderson, special agent, aka "Gundo" Daniel Machonis, group supervisor, aka "Mach One" Jenna Maguire, special agent, aka "JJ" Tom Mangan, special agent, aka "Teabag" Joe Slatalla, special agent, aka "Slats" Jesse Summers, special agent, aka "Summer Breeze"
OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT
Gayland Hammack, sergeant, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
William Long, detective, Phoenix Police Department, aka "Timmy"
Shawn Wood, sergeant, Arizona Department of Public Safety, aka "Woody"

ATF INFORMANTS
Pops (given name not provided)
Michael Kramer, Hells Angels member at Mesa, Arizona, and San Fernando Valley, California, charters, aka "Mesa Mike"
Rudolph Kramer, Solo Angeles member, aka "Rudy" (no relation to Michael Kramer)
Hells Angels by Charter (alphabetical by last name)
Note: As above, the men listed below are only the significant players found in the text. Many more Hells Angels are mentioned in the pages that follow .
ARIZONA NOMADS, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
Dennis Denbesten, member, aka "Chef Boy-Ar-Dee" Donald Smith, member, aka "Smitty"
CAVE CREEK, ARIZONA
Ralph Barger, member, aka "Sonny," "Chief" Daniel Danza, member, aka "Dirty Dan" Daniel Seybert, president, aka "Hoover"
MESA, ARIZONA, AKA "MESA MOB"
Kevin Augustiniak, member Gary Dunham, secretary, aka "Ghost" Paul Eischeid, member Robert Johnston, president, aka "Bad Bob," "Mesa Bob" Mike Kramer, member, aka "Mesa Mike" (transferred to San Fernando Valley, California, charter during the case) Calvin Schaefer, member, aka "Casino Cal"
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AKA "HOTHEDZ"
Robert Mora, member, aka "Chico"
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Pete Eunice, member, aka "Dago Pete," "Ramona Pete"
SKULL VALLEY, ARIZONA, AKA "GRAVEYARD CREW"
Rudy Jaime, member
Robert Reinstra, vice president, aka "Bobby" Joseph Richardson, member, aka "Joey," "Egghead" Theodore Toth, president, aka "Teddy" George Walters, sergeant at arms, aka "Joby"
TUCSON, ARIZONA
Douglas Dam, member, aka "Doug" Craig Kelly, president, aka "Fang" Robert McKay, member, aka "Mac" Henry Watkins, prospect, aka "Hank"
Hells Angels’ Old Ladies
Dolly Denbesten (wife of Dennis Denbesten) Staci Laird (girlfriend of Bobby Reinstra) Lydia Smith (wife of Donald Smith)
Other Suspects of Note
Alberto (last name unknown), vice president, Mexican Solo Angeles, Tijuana, Mexico Robert Abraham, gun dealer, Bullhead City, Arizona Tony Cruze, member, Red Devils, Tucson, Arizona Tim Holt, machinist, Mohave, Arizona Dave "Teacher" Rodarte, president, U. S. Solo Angeles, Los Angeles, California Scott Varvil, school nurse, mechanic, Kingman, Arizona
Arizona Motorcycle Clubs and Charter Locations (alphabetical after Hells Angels and Solo Angeles)
HELLS ANGELS *
aka "Big Red Machine," "Red and White," "81" Arizona Nomads (Flagstaff), Cave Creek, Mesa, Phoenix, Skull Valley, Tucson

SOLO ANGELES
aka "Orange Crush" Arizona Nomads (Bullhead City, Phoenix, Prescott)
AMERICANS
Page
DESERT ROAD RIDERS
Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City
DEVILS’ DISCIPLES
Tucson
DIRTY DOZEN (DEFUNCT)
Phoenix
HUNS
Tucson
LIMEYS
Charter location unknown
LONERS
Globe
MONGOLS
Phoenix
RED DEVILS
Tucson, Phoenix
SPARTANS
Phoenix Vietnam Vets Statewide
Major Motorcycle Clubs Traditionally Adversarial to the Hells Angels
BANDITOS
Texas, western states, international; aka "the Red and Gold," "Bandits"
MONGOLS
California, western states; aka "the Black," "the Black and White"
OUTLAWS
Midwest and Southern states; aka "OLs"
PAGANS
Eastern states
ROCK MACHINE
Canada (absorbed by Banditos)
VAGOS
California; aka "the Green," "Greenies"

* Note: the charters listed are only for Arizona. As noted in the text, the Hells Angels have charters in approximately twenty states and twenty-six countries.
NOTE TO THE READER:

The worlds of undercover cops and outlaw bikers are colorful and unique, and each possesses its own language. If at any time you’re unclear about the terms found on the following pages, please consult the glossary found at the back of this book.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive a doer makes mistakes.

JOHN WOODEN
UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH, 1948–1975

PART I
THE END

1
BIRDCALLS
JUNE 25 AND 26, 2003
TIMMY LEANED CASUALLY against the rear fender of my black Mercury Cougar, a cell phone on his ear and a smile on his face. The bastard was typically calm. Twelve months I’d been his partner, in and out of harm’s way, both together and alone, and the guy never looked stressed. He was as self-possessed as a rooster in a hen house my polar opposite.
I paced in front of him, rehearsing what I was going to tell our Hells Angels brothers. I shook the last smoke out of a pack of Newports. "Shit." I lit the cigarette, crumpled the pack, and threw it to the ground. It was 10:00 a.m. and I’d already emptied the first pack of the carton I’d bought that morning.
Timmy said into his phone, "I love you too honey cake. I should be home soon." He’d been saying things like that going on five minutes.
I stared at him and said, "The fuck, stud? Come on."
Timmy put a finger in the air and continued on the phone. "OK. Gotta run. Love you guys. OK. See you tonight." He snapped his phone closed. "What’s the drama, Bird? We got this."
"Oh, you know. Nothing really." I pointed at the guy lying facedown at our feet. "Just that if they don’t buy it, then we’ll end up like this asshole."
There, in a shallow desert ditch, was a gray-haired Caucasian male, his head split to the white meat. A pile of brains had oozed to the ground where Timmy had put Joby’s .380. Blood droplets, sprayed into the sand and dirt, made small, dark constellations. His blue jeans were splattered with purple, quarter-sized splotches. His wrists and ankles were bound with duct tape, his hands were limp. It was already over 100 degrees and the promise of coagulated blood and exposed matter had begun to attract flies.
He wore a black leather jacket whose top rocker, that curved cloth patch that spanned the shoulder blades, read MONGOLS .
I asked, "You think he’s dead?"
Timmy said, "Dude looks deader’n disco. Shit, those look like his brains in the dirt." Timmy leaned in closer. "Yeah, I’d say he’s pretty dead." He spat a stream of phlegm into the brush beyond the grave.
"Dude, no fucking around here. We go home and show the boys we killed a Mongol, then we better be dead-nuts sure it doesn’t look like he’s coming back."
Timmy smiled. "Relax, Bird, we got this. Like Lionel Richie said, we’re easy like Sunday mornin’." And then he started to sing. Badly:

Why in the world
would anybody put chains on me?
I’ve paid my dues to make it.
Everybody wants me to be
what they want me to be.
I’m not happy when I try to fake it!
Ooh,
That’s why I’m easy. Yeah.
I’m easy like Sunday mornin’.
I smiled and said, "You’re right, you’re right. And even if you aren’t, I don’t see how it matters. We’ve come too far."
He thought about that for a second. "Yeah, we have."
We threw a couple shovels of dirt on our corpse and took some pictures. We relieved him of his Mongol jacket, stuffing it in a FedEx box. We got in the car and headed home, to Phoenix.

TIMMY DROVE . I made some phone calls.
I lit a cigarette and waited for so