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Jersey tough : my wild ride from outlaw biker to undercover cop / Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw with Douglas P. Love.
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- ISBN: 9781770412613 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: xi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's life as a gang member, who after getting too close to extreme violence made the decision to change his path. - Bookmasters
The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer â and live to tell his taleIn 1977, Wayne âBig Chuckâ Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path.The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jerseyâs toughest neighbourhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniorsâ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11.Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption. - Bookmasters
Bradshaw would likely be dead today had he not made the risky decision to leave the outlaw Pagans motorcycle club in 1978. He charted a radically new course that took him into law enforcement -- including undercover narcotics work. - Perseus Publishing
The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer and live to tell his tale
In 1977, Wayne âBig Chuckâ Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colors in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path.
The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jerseyâs toughest neighborhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniorsâ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11.
Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption. - Simon and Schuster
The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer â and live to tell his tale
In 1977, Wayne âBig Chuckâ Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path.
The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jerseyâs toughest neighbourhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniorsâ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11.
Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption.
