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Hell's Angels
by Lavigne, Yves
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0888791623
- ISBN 13
- 9780888791627
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About This Item
Toronto: Deneau & Wayne Publishers Ltd. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage (Small Patch on Front Board Has "Scrubbed" Appearance; Lower Corner/Edge of Front Free Endpaper, Half Title Page Lightly Stained). DUST JACKET: Front Panel Portion Lightly Speckled with Gray Paint; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining to Reverse of Front Panel/Foldover Portion (Upper and Lower Edges)); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: taking care of business. CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I 1. Born to be Wild: A History of the Hell's Angels 2. Hell's Angels: The Club 3. Hell's Angels: The Business 4. Pussy Galore 5. The Angels & the Mob 6. The Power of Money 7. Born to be Mild PART II 8. The Big Four: Motorcycles, Murder & Mayhem En Masse 9. The Pagans: Do Unto Others & Split 10. The Bandidos: Southern Fried Pussy 11. The Outlaws: Travels with Charlie 12. Harvest of Terror PART III 13. Taking Care of Business 14. TCB: Le Coup de Grace 15. War: A Walk on the Wild Side 16. Boobs, Booby Traps & Bombs: The Hell's Angels Intelligence & Security Operations 17. The Filthy Few, the Mad Bumper & Pogo; INDEX. SYNOPSIS: Hell's Angels: Taking Care of Business is a dark and disturbing look at the original outlaw motorcycle gang--and the changes that have reshaped the old-boy network. The Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club--the most dominant and most feared of all motorcycle gangs--is trading in its bikes, brotherhood and booze for Jaguars, Wittnauers and business suits. The Hell's Angels are now one of the most powerful underground corporate organizations--rivalling even the Mafia. But this new direction has come with no small sparing of blood. Territorial wars and retaliatory violence now dominate club activity as chapters vie for the lucrative profits of drug trafficking and prostitution. Prolific murder within the club--and the ever-present threat of death--has taken its toll on club morale and camaraderie. Haunted by fear, some members have sought police protection in return for testimony against fellow Angels. The Hell's Angels are changing their image. The days of the long-haired, bearded, tattooed biker astride his Harley-Davidson are numbered. Only the future will tell if these new businessmen will take care of business, or if their business will take care of them. - and - The Hell's Angels are the underside of the American dream--the American nightmare. The bikers who ride and plunder under the authority of the grinning, winged death's head have regaled and terrified the world over five decades with deeds of lust, violence and death. They are the gang out of which all outlaw motorcycle gangs grow, the primal ooze out of which the last link crawls, white trash on wheels. The Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, once an organization dedicated to bikes, booze and boobs, is now a multi-national, multi-million dollar business that peddles drugs, women and death. Yesterday's rebels have become today's pushers, pimps and hit men. The Hell's Angels are a formidable criminal organization. They are more cunning and better equipped than the police who track them. If they weren't so greedy and paranoid, if they weren't prone to killing their own members, if they didn't scare fellow Angels into becoming police informants, the Hell's Angels would rule the underworld. Yves Lavigne is a reporter with the Globe and Mail. Since 1977, Lavigne has delved into many aspects of crime and the criminal underworld, including a report on the Miami riots of 1980; investigations into Asian organized crime and illicit sales of prescription drugs in Canada; and airborne research with US Customs officials in pursuit of cocaine smugglers en route from Colombia to Florida and the Bahamas. While writing Hells Angels: Taking Care of Business Lavigne relied on various levels of law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada who attempt to control the widespread criminal activities of bikers. Never one to put a safe distance between himself and danger when pursuing a story, Lavigne's thorough and detailed expose of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club will serve as a vivid and shocking testament of this secretive organization for many years to come. Lavigne currently lives and works in Toronto.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Yves Lavigne is the author of the national bestsellers Hells Angels, Into the Abyss , and Hells Angels at War . He is also the author of Death Dealers , an expose of how gang drug wars are changing the face of crime. He is an international expert on motorcycle and other illegal gangs, infiltrating their ranks on many fronts and receiving commendations from law enforcement agencies for his work. A veteran journalist who worked for the Globe and Mail for ten years, Yves Lavigne lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004009
- Title
- Hell's Angels
- Author
- Lavigne, Yves
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0888791623
- ISBN 13
- 9780888791627
- Publisher
- Deneau & Wayne Publishers Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- June 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- True Crime,Organized Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime - Organized Crime;
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We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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