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Wayward Angel : The Full-Story of the Hell's Angels by the Former Vice-President
of the Oakland Chapter
by George
Wethern, Vincent
Colnett
From the Back Cover:
We all know about the Hell's Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings,
and even murder. Their barbarism, we think, is horrifying, but it's also perversely fascinating, for there's an alluring freedom in such
nihilism. Still, nobody knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel - an Angel like George Wethern, for many years the vice
president of the Oakland Chapter.
Until he found himself in reluctant service to the courts, Wethern was the quintessential Angel, tough as they come, one of the most
important drug dealers on the West Coast - a man who loved bikes, fights, women, and drugs; a man who knew the deepest secrets of
Angel life. Arrested, strung out, in despair, he bought a precarious freedom by testifying in several major trials against Angel's members -
and then disappeared into the witness protection program.
A Wayward Angel is a powerful book, not for the squeamish, and a vivid portrait of the chaos of late twentieth-century California, the
awful collision of the drug scene and the alienation of modern life – a story uniquely American, terrifying because it's real. We witness
killings, million-dollar drug deals, "picnics" that are nothing short of orgies, and the sometimes bizarre inner workings of the biker club.
Paperback from The Lyons Press
Book Published: 01 August, 2004
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