Befriend and Betray : Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods

by Caine, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780312537197
• ISBN10: 0312537190
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-17
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Summary

The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all. Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanor, Caine could fit into whatever unsavory situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he'd slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. Told with page-turning immediacy,Befriend and Betraygives 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 to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.

Author Biography

Alex Caine now acts as an adviser on biker investigations and a speaker at police conferences. He is a certified fifth-degree black belt martial artist, recognized by the World Kickboxing Association. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Far from the Tree	p. 7
Hobo and the Triad	p. 37
Family Comes First... Smugglers Second	p. 63
The Border Bandidos	p. 73
My Colors Go National	p. 101
Bringing the Bandidos Down	p. 124
KKK to the Rock	p. 160
Les Hells and the Para-Dice Riders	p. 186
Dago Hells Angels and the Russians	p. 217
At War in Laughlin	p. 235
Epilogue	p. 279
Index	p. 285
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