Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond / George Christie.

Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond / George Christie.

By
Christie, George.

Publication Date
2016

Publication Information
New York : St. Martin's Press,

Physical Description
257 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.

Subject Term
Motorcycle gangs -- United States.
 
Organized crime -- History.

Summary
After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As the president of the high-profile Ventura chapter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Angels. Christie was the negotiator, the spokesman, the thinker, the guy who smoothed things out. He was the one who carried the Olympic torch and counted movie stars, artists, the Grateful Dead and police chief captains among his friends. But leaving isn't easy, and within two weeks of retirement he was told he was "out bad," blackballed by his fellow Angels, prohibited from wearing the club patch, even told he should remove his Death's Head tattoo. Now, Christie's set out to tell his story. Exile on Front Street is the tale of how a middle-class electrician gave up a comfortable job with the Department of Defense and swore allegiance to the Hells Angels. In this action-packed, hard-hitting memoir, he recounts his life as an outlaw biker with the world's most infamous motorcycle club.

Language
English

ISBN
9781250095688


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