In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a
lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork.
When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent
inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of
Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in
America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was
kicking-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an
outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement.
Nor did Queen suspect that he would penetrate the gang so
successfully that he would become a fully "patched-in" member,
eventually rising through their ranks to the office of treasurer,
where he had unprecedented access to evidence of their criminal
activity. After Queen spent twenty-eight months as "Billy St.
John," the bearded, beer-swilling, Harley-riding gang-banger, the
truth of his identity became blurry, even to himself.
During his initial "prospecting" phase, Queen was at the mercy of
crank-fueled criminal psychopaths who sought to have him test his
mettle and prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling
(and doing) drugs, to arms trafficking, stealing motorcycles,
driving getaway cars, and, in one shocking instance, stitching up
the face of a Mongol "ol' lady" after a particularly brutal beating
at the hands of her boyfriend.
Yet despite the constant criminality of the gang, for whom planning
cop killings and gang rapes were business as usual, Queen also came
to see the genuine camaraderie they shared. When his lengthy
undercover work totally isolated Queen from family, his friends,
and ATF colleagues, the Mongols felt like the only family he had
left. "I had no doubt these guys genuinely loved Billy St. John and
would have laid down their lives for him. But they wouldn't
hesitate to murder Billy Queen."
From Queen's first sleight of hand with a line of methamphetamine
in front of him and a knife at his throat, to the fearsome face-off
with their decades-old enemy, the Hell's Angels (a brawl that left
three bikers dead), to the heartbreaking scene of a father
ostracized at Parents' Night because his deranged-outlaw appearance
precluded any interaction with regular citizens, "Under and Alone
"is a breathless, adrenaline-charged read that puts you on the
street with some of the most dangerous men in America and with the
law enforcement agents who risk everything to bring them in.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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