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	• Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw ... William Queen Fawcett, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 198 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Awsome

I really enjoyed the book. Being a member of the law enforcement community and also a Harley rider, it was hard to put down. A good read. Buy it.

Great Story

This is a great story, what surprised me was that it was not one sided at all. He even recalls a time when police were, lets just say, not acting as they should be. Great read, took only a few days, I recommend it for anyone, law enforcement or not.

A book you look forward to reading yet sad to finish

This book is a very gripping and compelling look at undercover law enforcement work. It outs you in the boots of a veteran ATF agent who sacrificed his family life for over 2 years to hang out with one of the most violent motorcycle gangs around.

His close calls of being found out and tests before being fully "patched in" will keep you on the edge of your seat. This shows an inside look at undercover work and how it can play with your emotions and second guess your true identity. The struggles of interacting with his family and regular society and other police looking like a gangster and trying to keep his true identity hidden from his own gang keeps this story intense emotionally.

I looked forward to reading this book and finishing it each day at lunch but at the end of the book I didn't want the action to end.

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UNREAL

This is a story every bit as fascinating as Donnie Brasco. Should also be a movie. Living undercover as a Mongel member for two years with those dirty drunken drug users had to be an awful extistence. Or maybe it was fun. However it was, it is a great read.

Billy St John, 1%er

William Queen, ATF agent goes deep undercover into the Mongols motorcycle gang as Billy St John. Queen recounts his time as a prospect, getting full-patch in into the Mongols, holding Mongol officer status as secretary-treasurer and even vice-president of the San Fernando Valley Chapter. He does his best to steer away from committing crimes and has to come up with excuses on the fly as to why we can't participate so as not to jeopardize his standing as a federal agent. All the while putting up with early abuse and secretly recording conversations and gathering intel into the crimes committed by such clubs.

Queen becomes so entwined into the gang, that he begins having a hard time personally telling which life he wants, Billy St John or William Queen. After two and a half years, Queen finally has to drop the hammer to save his own descent. He's deeply touched by the events following his aunt's death in which the Mongols show more concern, condolensces, and care about Billy than any faction of his fellow ATF agents, even his partner Ciccone.

Unfortunately, while the book is very good, there are organization and topic coverage that is just too messy to warrant a higher rating. Do we really need to be inform that he "back his straight pipes up to the curb" every time he went somewhere? The first few chapters are just terribly organized and all over the place rather than using a better thought out background into the operation. You get tired of hearing him debate internally about throwing out the assignment when certain situations arise because it's a conflict of his law enforcement training (and rightly so).

Overall, this is a great story and should be read. However, the format of the book is low and needed better organization. I'd like to have learned more about certain gang friends of his and possibly more on the aftermath of the court cases on individuals like Red Dog and Evel. Great story, bad formatting. Good selection of photos included in the middle of the book too. Former Mongol member Ruben Cavazos' book Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol is easily counteracted by this telling of life as a Mongol.

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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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