A
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
