Riding with Evil - Ken Croke & Dave Wedge

Riding with Evil

By Ken Croke & Dave Wedge

  • Release Date: 2022-03-15
  • Genre: True Crime
4 Score: 4 (From 127 Ratings)

Description

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.  

Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang created an opening, he transformed himself into “Slam,” a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the leadership “mother club” at all costs. He befriended the club’s most violent and criminally insane members and lived among them for two years, covertly building a case that would eventually take down the top members of the gang in a massive federal prosecution, even as he risked his marriage, his sanity, and his life. With today’s law enforcement largely moving toward the comparative safety of cyber operations, it became one of the last of its kind, a masterclass in old school tactics that marked Croke as a dying breed of undercover agent and became legendary in law enforcement.

Now for the first time, Croke tells the story of his terrifying undercover life in the Pagans—the unspeakable violence, extremism, drugs, and disgusting rituals. Written with bestselling crime writer Dave Wedge and utilizing the exclusive cooperation of those who lived the case with him, as well as thousands of pages of court files and hours of surveillance tapes and photos, Croke delivers a frightening, nail-biting account of the secretive and brutal biker underworld.

Reviews

  • PlotPlanter

    1
    By Plotplanter
    A good plot but just a style of writing that was dull and cliché.
  • Definitely Not a Pulitzer Prize Winner

    2
    By Cyber_Grunt
    There are no surprises in this book, took me about 5 days to read. Very easy read, and very predictable. The agent who co-authored the book sounds like he got his talking points from CNN….Wait for the second hand paperback version….save your money.

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