"Chopper moved into position. The skinhead was still bent double. Bringing up his knee, Chopper felt with satisfaction the scrunch of broken bone as the kid's nose made contact. The kid went down, while blows from boots rained upon his body. He lay groaning, spitting out gouts of deep red blood and pieces of broken teeth.

" 'Don't ever pull a blade on an Angel.' snapped Freaky before they left the kid. 'It's not friendly.' "

This is the story of Chopper, of his bike, his pills, his girls and his violent bid for gang leadership. Author Peter Cave tells like never before how a greaser grows up to become a fallen Angel.

(cover photograph by Shepard Sherbell)

© 1971 Peter L Cave

First NEL Paperback Edition April 1971
Reprinted October 1971

NEL Books are published by New English Library Limited from Barnard's Inn, Holborn, London, EC1.

This is the incredible autobiography of 'Wild Bill' Henderson - a Hell's Angel who pushed dope, raped women, terrorized 'squares' and lived in a jungle of crime, violence and sadistic warfare.

Now a respectably married man - this is the story of his dark days; the almost indescribable thrill of owning and riding a motorcycle, what Hell's Angels really stood for, the senseless violence, the way out orgies, the unbelievable initiation rites, the runs, rumbles and deaths. Here is the truth, never before fully revealed, never before in such shocking detail.

We dare you to read this book, and come out of it unchanged, unshaken by the sickening sexual madness and violence of the thousands of Hell's Angels who found a place in Hell.

First published by Holloway House Publishing Co in the USA 1968
© 1968 by Holloway House Publishing Co
First NEL Edition May 1970

NEL Books are published by New English Library Limited from Barnard's Inn, Holborn, London, EC1.

They shoot the hillcrest like a burst of dirty thunder, shoulder-length hair streaming from Cro-magnon faces, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head emblazoned denims cracking in the wind - the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing...

Gang rape, pillage, murder... press reports of the Angels read like a plot-synopsis of a thriller-writer's worst dreams. Hunter Thompson found the reality different - but still disturbing. Here, with Rabelaisian gusto, he tells of his experiences with Little Jesus, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Big Frank ('You don't really jerk out the eyeball, you just sorta spring it so it pops outa the socket') and a host of others. This is the inner truth of a phenomenon which relegates our Rockers to the nursery.

Cover photograph by Don Snyder
First published in the USA by Random House 1966. Published in Great Britain by Penguin Books 1967. This edition 1977
© Hunter S Thompson 1966, 1967