Gods of Mischief
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Publisher Description
March 9, 2006, it's hours before one of the largest motorcycle gang busts in history. George Rowe has spent the past three years as an informant, working undercover with the Vagos, one of the most dangerous biker gangs in the country. His fiancee, a struggling heroin addict carrying their unborn child, is asleep next to him. She's got no idea who he really is, what he's done, or what's about to happen. Rowe wonders how did it go so far?
A gritty and harrowing memoir about human redemption and self-sacrifice, Rowe tells the story of the first private citizen to voluntarily infiltrate an outlaw motorcycle gang for the U.S. government. George Rowe, drug dealer, barroom brawler, and convicted felon, never thought he'd work for the feds. But when he watched the Vagos brutally and senselessly beat his friend everything changed. He decided to pay back his Southern California hometown by bringing down the gang that terrorised it. Rowe spent three brutal years juggling a double life - riding, fighting, and nearly dying alongside the brothers that he secretly hoped to put away for good. The road to redemption wasn't an easy ride. Rowe lost everything: his family, his business, his home - even his identity. To this day, under protection by the U.S. government, Rowe still looks over his shoulder, keeping watch for the brothers he put behind bars. They've vowed to search for him until the day they die.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this roughhewn memoir, one-time meth dealer and reformed felon George Rowe describes his undercover mission to infiltrate the notorious Vagos motorcycle gang. When Rowe walked into an ATF field office in March 2003, he was looking for revenge. A good friend had vanished after a clash with the Vagos, and Rowe figured that the body was in a hole somewhere in the Mojave Desert. This began a three-year odyssey for Rowe as he rode and fought with the Vagos, while at the same time gathering evidence that would put his "brothers" away. Rowe describes his Vagos adventures in bawdy, profanity-laced prose that suits the topic. At times his macho posturing becomes hard to bear he beats up pretty much everyone who crosses him, and is apparently irresistible to women yet he also writes with candor about his substance abuse, racism, and bad decisions, including a 22-year-old heroin-addict girlfriend. The depiction of the troubled relationship lends unusual depth to what could have been a boilerplate tough-guy memoir. After warrants are served and doors kicked in, Rowe ends up in the witness protection program with a newborn son to care for. While he seems to have found some peace with his decision, almost all of the Vagos he put away ended up back on the street.
Customer Reviews
Old Joe
I hope you have caught up with old Joe!
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Open your eyes to the world of the life of a biker and the sad life of a rat or dog which ever you call a police informer