Fallen Angel

The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels

Jerry Langton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2006
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-83710-8 (ISBN)

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At only 5 feet 5 inches, Hells Angels President Walter Stadnick is a living, breathing Napoleon for the hell-for-leather set. During his ten-year reign in the 1990s, he led the Angels through violent turf wars in Quebec and expanded the gang's empire into Ontario.

Walter Stadnick is not an imposing man. At five-foot-four, his face and arms scarred by fire in a motorcycle accident, he would not spring to mind as a leader of Canada's most notorious biker gang, the Hells Angels. yet through sheer guts and determination, intelligence and luck, this Hamilton-born youth who had the nickname of "Nurget" rose in the Hells Angels ranks to become national president. Not only did he lead the Angels through the violent war with their rivals the rock machine in Montreal in the Nineties, Stadnick saw opportunity to grow the Hells Angels into a national criminal gang. he was a visionary--and a highly successful one.

Bikers are not known for their fondness for rival gangs. Stadnick and the Angels fought and defeated rival gangs, or used power of persuasion to patch them over. As Stadnick's influence spread, law enforcement took notice of the growing presence of the Angels in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. However, Stadnick's success did not come without a price. Arrested and charged with 13 counts of first-degree murder, stadnick beat the murder charges but was convicted of gangsterism and is currently serving time.

Fallen Angel details one man's improbable rise to power in one of the world's most violent organizations, while shedding light on how this enigmatic and dangerous biker gang operated and why it remains so powerful.

Jerry Langton grew up in Hamilton, where he wrote for The Hamilton Spectator. He also contributed to Maclean’s. After a move to New York, he became the deputy editor for The Daily News. Having returned to Toronto, Langton is a freelance writer whose work appears regularly in The Globe & Mail and The Toronto Star.

Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1

Chapter 1 3

Chapter 2 14

Chapter 3 43

Chapter 4 57

Chapter 5 77

Chapter 6 95

Chapter 7 117

Chapter 8 143

Chapter 9 163

Chapter 10 187

Chapter 11 213

Chapter 12 228

Chapter 13 245

Chapter 14 253

Index 267

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2006
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Recht / Sonstiges
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-470-83710-1 / 0470837101
ISBN-13	978-0-470-83710-8 / 9780470837108
Zustand	Neuware