January New Release - Riding on the Edge

Title: Riding on the Edge

             

Subtitle: A Motorcycle Outlaw’s Tale    

                

Author/s: John Hall

RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9780760341339

Format: Paperback, 256 pages

Dimensions: 22.9cm x 15.2cm

Publisher: Motorbooks International

Aust. Release Date: January 2012

Book Description/Synopsis:

Ride with author John Hall into the turbulent world of 1960s bike club culture, from his beginnings at an upstart motorcycle club to his rise to the Long Island chapter president of the Pagans, a club that the FBI called "the most violent criminal organisation in America." Follow him into the Pagan heartland of Pennsylvania where he fell in love, got in a roadhouse brawl over a honky-tonk angel and eventually went to jail for "takin' care a club business". Now, after a career as a journalist and college professor, he returns to the violent days of his youth and smashes up stereotypes like he once smashed up bars, resurrecting long-dead brothers in a style reminiscent of Jack Kerouac and Mark Twain. Hall presents them as they really were: hard living, hard loving, hard drinking, hard fighting rebels, but also hardworking, patriotic, loyal and lovable characters.