Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell’s Angels could paralyze whole towns with fear, so terrible was their reputation.
But how much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality? This book seeks the truth behind these latter-day barbarians.
A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . .
This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle).
