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In 2001, Jay Dobyns was assigned as the lead undercover agent in an ATF investigation of the Arizona Hells Angels. His goal: become the first government operative to gain "full patch" status as a member of the notorious motorcycle club. Transforming himself into a menacing, bearded biker known as "Bird" for nearly two years, Jay hit on a last, jaw-dropping gambit to gain access to the Angel's inner sanctum. Then word leaked to the bikers that he might...

Alex Caine fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups. This is his story. Told with page-turning immediacy, the story gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine wondering who he really was,...

"A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to Hollywood In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series--the Aubrey-Maturin series, which was set during the Napoleonic Wars--seemed destined for film. With Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin, the production only needed a ship that could stand in for Lucky Jack's HMS...

Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.- Canada border. As Buck reluctantly plunges...

This book ia a biography and cultural examination of the Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led. As the Rolling Stones' legendary front man Mick Jagger remains an enigma. He hasn't given an in-depth interview for a decade and a half and never commented on his friend and partner, Keith Richard's often critical biography. Drawing on firsthand recollections from rockers, filmmakers, writers, radicals,...