Nils Johnson-Shelton has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 30 ratings. The most-rated is No Angel.

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No Angel

30 ratings

Summary

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols---these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels. Dobyns leaves no stone of his harrowing journey unturned. At runs and clubhouses, between rides and riots, Dobyns befriends bad-ass bikers, meth-fueled "old ladies", gun fetishists, psycho-killer ex-cons, and even some of the "Filthy Few"---the elite of the Hells Angels who've committed extreme violence on behalf of their club. Eventually, at parties staged behind heavily armed security, he meets legendary club members such as Chuck Zito, Johnny Angel, and the godfather of all bikers, Ralph "Sonny" Barger. To blend in with them, he gets full-arm ink; to win their respect, he vows to prove himself a stone-cold killer. Hardest of all is leading a double life, which has him torn between his devotion to his wife and children and his pledge to become the first federal agent ever to be "fully patched" into the Angels' near-impregnable ranks. His act is so convincing that he comes within a hairsbreadth of losing himself. Eventually, he realizes that just as he's been infiltrating the Hells Angels, they've been infiltrating him. And just as they're not all bad, he's not all good. Reminiscent of Donnie Brasco's uncovering of the true Mafia, this is an eye-opening portrait of the world of bikers - the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson's seminal work - one that fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who would otherwise be powerless outsiders. Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation, but also the freedom - and, yes, brotherhood---of the only truly American form of organized crime.

©2009 Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton (P)2009 Tantor

Narrator: Mel Foster
Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
Available on Audible
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Falscher Engel

Summary

Schon bald nach seiner Gründung Ende der 40er Jahre in den USA machte der Hells Angels Motorcycle Club durch Gesetzesübertretungen und Gewaltdelikte von sich reden. Drogengeschäfte, Prostitution, Morde und Schlägereien sowie - mittlerweile auch international geführte - Bandenkriege mit rivalisierenden Clubs bringen den mitgliederstärksten Rockerclub der Welt immer wieder in den Verdacht der organisierten Kriminalität. Wer Mitglied der Hells Angels werden will, muss strenge Aufnahmekriterien erfüllen und in der Regel eine lange Bewährungszeit absolvieren. Doch ein Geheimagent der US-Behörde ATF im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Arizona schaffte das Unmögliche: Dem korpulenten, am ganzen Körper tätowierten ehemaligen Footballspieler gelang es, einen Mord vorzutäuschen, um in die berüchtigte Motorradgang aufgenommen zu werden. Während er zwei Jahre lang verdeckt in den Kreisen der Hells Angels ermittelte, wurde Jay Dobyns Zeuge unzähliger Verbrechen vom Drogenhandel bis zum Auftragsmord. Die Operation "Black Biscuit" führte schließlich zur Verhaftung und Verurteilung von rund 50 Hells Angels in zahlreichen Bundesstaaten der USA. In seinem Buch berichtet Dobyns von seinem gefährlichen Doppelleben, in dem er nicht nur ständig bedroht war, als Spitzel aufzufliegen, sondern auch, sich ganz von seiner Familie zu entfernen und an die Hells Angels zu verlieren.

(c)+(p) 2009 Riva Verlag

Narrator: Johannes Steck
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
Available on Audible