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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels (edição 2010)

por Jay Dobyns (Autor), Nils Johnson-Shelton (Autor)

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The first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels, Dobyns finally tells the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
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Título:No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Autores:Jay Dobyns (Autor)
Outros autores:Nils Johnson-Shelton (Autor)
Informação:Crown (2010), Edition: Illustrated, 352 pages
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Definitely a page-turner; kind of a bummer of an ending but that's how it goes I guess. IIWII as he might say. Definitely for true crime fans and readers of off-beat memoir. Rough and tumble, lots of swears and a ride on the seamy side of American life. ( )
  bostonbibliophile | Jun 25, 2021 |
I really enjoyed this book. A detailed descent into the dark world of biker gangs and the appalling actions committed by them. Jay Dobyns infiltration into the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club reads like a kick to the teeth and leaves you thoroughly convinced that you could not do the same and live. ( )
  DarthBrazen | Jan 21, 2015 |
The writers of Sons of Anarchy directly used some of the characters from this book. The Hells Angels look like a bunch of bungling bandits in this memoir from an ATF agent who infiltrated the biker gang.

The agent puffs himself up to be awesome but you never feel like you are really inside of it all. It's mostly a tale of how the agent lost himself in the world of undercover policing and Serpico was so much better for that kind of tale. The agent, Jay, is self important and at the end of it, I had no empathy for his job or what he did. Just another glory hound living on tales from the past under the guise of a patriotic cop...blah.

Although they got a lot of guns and a few drugs and touched lightly on the seedy parts of that world, watch Sons of Anarchy if you want to feel like you are more in depth. ( )
  ozzieslim | Dec 28, 2014 |
The infiltration of the Hells Angels by undercover cop and author Jay Dobyns is as interesting from the point of view of the very real deterioration of the character Jay and metamorphosis into his alterego 'Bird' as it is from the hows and wheres of how law enforcement can run such an operation.

The book's writing is unusual in that where Jay is an involved family man and serious cop, the writing reads as measured and logical. But as his real life crumbles and he feels most alive as an (otc) drug-wired gang member, so does the writing become frenetic and disorganised. Only the impossibly unsatisfying denoument, forseeable but unexpected, saves the man, but not, sadly, the operation.

I later read Hunter S. Thompson's masterpiece Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga which was written 40 years earlier and involved some of the same characters. This was very enjoyable seeing the young guns turn into old reprobrates. They must live on adrenaline running from the law all that time. I wonder what path their children will choose? ( )
  Petra.Xs | Apr 2, 2013 |
Mit "Falscher Engel" hat Autor Jay Dobyns ein packendes Enthüllungsbuch geschrieben, in welchem der ex-Polizist penibel seine Ermittlungen gegen die Rockergruppe Hells Angels dokumentiert.

In einem recht anstrengendem Stil beschreibt Dobyns den Alltag eines verdeckten Ermittlers, der bis in die engsten Kreise der amerikanischen Hells Angels vordringt. Teilweise wirkt dieses Buch ein wenig unglaubwürdig, da auch die unwichtigsten Dialoge nacherzählt werden, aber der Autor gibt im Buch auch zu, dass diese dramatisiert wiedergegeben werden, weil er sich nicht an jeden genauen Wortlaut erinnern kann.

"Falscher Engel" gibt dennoch einen ziemlich guten Eindruck davon wieder, wie zielstrebig und fast schon skrupellos verdeckte Ermittler in den U.S.A. agieren. Es wird recht munter mit Waffen und Drogen gehandelt und mehr als einmal ist Dobyns an der Grenze der Legalität entlang geschlittert.
Aber auch die privaten Aspekte kommen nicht zu kurz, denn Dobyns berichtet ebenfalls recht dramatisch, wie sehr er sich mehr und mehr von seiner Familie distanziert hat und mit der Rolle als 'Bird', dem skrupellosen Motorradrocker, verschmolzen ist.

"Falscher Engel" beschreibt zudem sehr plastisch, wie es im Inneren von Motorradgangs zugeht. Natürlich wird der Fokus auf die Hells Angels gelegt, aber die Strukturen weichen untereinander nicht großartig voneinander ab.
Auch die Probleme innerhalb dieses Clubs werden beschrieben, denn es gibt die 'jungen Wilden', die vor nichts zurückschrecken und die 'alte Garde', die sich auf die klassischen Werte beruft.

"Falscher Engel" liest sich ganz angenehm, auch wenn die verwendete Sprache ein wenig plump erscheint, jedoch gewöhnt man sich recht schnell an diesen eigenwilligen Schreibstil. Auch die Spannung wird wunderbar aufgebaut und bleibt erhalten, sodass man dieses Buch eigentlich nicht weglegen will.
Allerdings wirkt es insgesamt - wie bereits eingangs erwähnt - ziemlich unglaubwürdig. Ich persönlich würde es eher in die Schublade 'beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten' stecken.
Natürlich konnte ich den Wahrheitsgehalt nicht explizit prüfen, daher ist es lediglich ein Eindruck, der entsteht.

Ich gebe "Falscher Engel" eine Wertung von sieben Punkten. Das Buch ist in sich stimmig und liest sich auch sehr flüssig, jedoch sind die oben angegebenen Kritikpunkte nicht von der Hand zu weisen.

Quelle: www.Necroweb.de ( )
  Stefan_Frster | Jul 15, 2011 |
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