Jay Dobyns

Jag hade svårt för författaren och undercover polisen alias Bird , Joy Dobyns känns känslokall med ett enormt ego ,han saknar all sympati för människor han arbetar med, och han ser de alla som verktyg för att nå status och ära . Jag håller med tidigare recentioner att Joy Dobyns kunde ha kortat ner boken en aning , att mycket var onödigt uppfyllands material . Men trots det har det varit spännande läsning och få en inblick i Hells Angels kulturen .

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.

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) show more 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? show less

a pretty interesting peek into a world completely foreign to me - that of both the motorcycle gang the hell's angels and also being an undercover cop and what that entails (and doesn't). reason enough to read this one.