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THE GODS OF MISCHIEF

George Rowe

My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

The high-octane, no-holds-barred, true story of a bad guy turned good who infiltrated one of the most violent outlaw motorcycle gangs in history to take them down.
It’s the morning of March 9, 2006, hours before one of the largest motorcycle gang busts in United States history, and George Rowe can’t sleep. He keeps thinking about the past three years he spent as an informant for the ATF, working undercover with the Vagos, one of the most dangerous biker gangs in the country. His fiancée, a lost-cause drug addict carrying their unborn child, is asleep next to him. She’s got no idea who he really is, what he’s done, or what’s about to happen. How in the hell, Rowe wonders, did it go so far and get so deep?

A gritty and harrowing memoir about human redemption and self-sacrifice, Gods of Mischief tells the story of the first private citizen to voluntarily infiltrate an outlaw motorcycle gang for the U.S. government. George Rowe, drug dealer, barroom brawler, and convicted felon, never thought he’d work for the feds. But when he watched the Vagos brutally and senselessly beat his friend everything changed. He decided to pay back his Southern California hometown by bringing down the gang that terrorized it. As “Big George,” a full-patched member of the Vagos, Rowe spent three brutal years juggling a double life—riding, fighting, and nearly dying alongside the brothers that he secretly hoped to put away for good. The road to redemption wasn’t an easy ride. Rowe lost everything: his family, his business, his home—even his identity. To this day, under protection by the U.S. government, Rowe still looks over his shoulder, keeping watch for the brothers he put behind bars. They’ve vowed to search for him until the day they die.
George Rowe is originally from Hemet, California. He is now being protected by the U.S. Witness Protection Program.
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Published 2013-02-01 by Touchstone

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Published 2013-02-01 by Touchstone

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In this roughhewn memoir, one-time meth dealer and reformed felon George Rowe describes his undercover mission to infiltrate the notorious Vagos motorcycle gang…He also writes with candor….[lending] unusual depth to what could have been a boilerplate tough-guy memoir. Read more...

Brash accountof a reformed bad boy’s decision to help the federal government take down “Green Nation,” the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang….Rowe writes clearly, with a lighter touch and a more grounded specificity than in many reformed-gangster memoirs….delivered with more grime than romanticism. Read more...

Oh my God, what a story. This is a dangerous and emotional page turner that’s going to leave you thinking to yourself, ‘My life’s not so bad after all.’ Reading Gods of Mischief is like sitting right next to George Rowe listening to him tell it.

Most people wouldn't dare lock eyes with a member of the Vagos. A few would look away, the rest would just run. America prefers to voyeur into the biker culture, hiding behind the safety of the television screen. Gods of Mischief cuts through the fear and Hollywood glamorization, puts you on a bike, and rides you right into the Green Nation.

AUS / NZ: Pan Macmillan

At times, one senses that Rowe was in danger of coming back to the dark side. Still, he was able to hold onto his redeemed self while helping to put away some very bad guys.