The autobiography
- the dangerous life & wild times
- of Sonny Barger the legendary leader of the Hells Angels. Sonny Barger

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A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west.. .the noise was like a landslide or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldnt quite handle what I was seeing. Huge bikes filthy denim & an aura of barely contained violence; the Hells Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear so terrible was their reputation. But how much of that reputation was myth & how much was brutal reality? Only one man could discover the truth about these latter-day barbarians; Hunter Stockton Thompson Dr Gonzo himself the man who saw the fear & loathing in the heart of the American dream. This counter-culture classic is the hair-raising result. ...

Journalist maverick rebel & author of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hells Angels beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west...the noise was like a landslide or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldnt quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan Morgans Raiders the Wild One & the Rape of Nanking all at once. In September 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey California. It was a trip destined to make Hells Angels household names across America infamous for their violent drunken rampages & feared for the destruction left in their wake. Enter Hunter S. Thompson the master of counter-culture journalism who alone had the ability & stature to ride with the Angels on their terms. In this brilliant & hair-raising expose he journeys with the last outlaws of the American frontier. A mixture of journalism story-telling & sheer bravado Hells Angels is Hunter S. Thompson at full throttle. " Excellent documentary non-fiction". (" Time Out"). " The maverick voice of American counterculture". (" Guardian"). " There are only two adjectives writers care about any more
- "brilliant" & "outrageous"
- & Hunter has a freehold on both of them". (Tom Wolfe). " The book that made Thompsons name". (" Loaded"). Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1937. He began his writing career as a sports columnist in Florida & went on to work on newspapers & magazines in New York San Juan & Rio de Janeiro. His articles appeared in Esquire " Rolling Stone" magazine & the " San Francisco Chronicle". He is the author of a number of books including " Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" " Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72" " The Great Shark Hunt" " Generation of Swine" " The Curse of Lono" " Songs of the Doomed" " Better Than Sex" " The Proud Highway" & " The Rum Diary". Hunter S. Thompson died in 2005."

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Samuel Johnson
- with a little help from his dachshund Boswell & a very unlucky demon named Nurd
- has sent the demons back

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In 1925 six of Germanys leading chemical companies banded together in a cartel to protect their business from increasing international competition. Twenty years later the directors found themselves on trial at Nuremberg accused of being the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true. How had one of the worlds leading companies whose knowledge & expertise were the envy of the world become Hitlers creature directly involved in the Holocaust with their experimental I. G. Monowitz plant at Auschwitz? In this brilliantly researched & compelling book Diarmuid Jeffreys shines a bright light on I. G Farbens Faustian pact with the Third Reich to reveal in shocking detail the story of the original military-industrial complex. ...

Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world the Battle of Cherkassy (also known as the Korsun Pocket) still stirs controversy in both the former Soviet Union & in Germany. It was at Cherkassy that the last German offensive strength in the Ukraine was drained away creating the conditions for the victorious Soviet advance into Poland Rumania & the Balkans during the summer & autumn of 1944. Eclipsed by a war of such gigantic proportions that saw the deaths of over one million men or more as commonplace the events which occurred along the banks of the Gniloy Tickich river should have faded into obscurity. However to the 60 000 German soldiers who were encircled there at the end of January 1944 this was perhaps one of the most brutal physically exhausting & morally demanding battles they had ever experienced. Thirty-four percent of them would not escape. The culmination of years of research & survivor interviews Hells Gate is a riveting hour by hour & day by day account of this desperate struggle analyzed on a tactical level through maps & military transcripts as well as on a personal level through the words of the enlisted men & officers who risked the roaring waters of the Gniloy Tickich to avoid certain death at the hands of their Soviet foe. ...

The final dramatic conclusion to Darren Shan's international phenomenon The Demonata. Expect the unexpected... Beranabus & Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief & spinning out of control. The demons are crossing. The Disciples are falling. The Shadow is waiting. Welcome to the end. ...

The second volume in a noirish gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling Children's author. In the City The Cardinal rules & Al Jeery is a loyal member of his personal guard. But when Al is seconded from his duties at Party Central to investigate a murder an unexpected discovery leads him in a new direction where his loyalties & beliefs will be severely tested. Soon he is involved in a terrifying mystery that draws in the dead the City's Incan forefathers the imposing figure of the Cardinal & the near-mythical assassin Paucar Wami. Wami is a law unto himself a shadowy enigmatic figure who can apparently kill anyone he chooses without fear of punishment or retribution. & Al is about to find out that he has a lot more in common with Wami than he could ever have imagined! ...

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system a world where murder torture & fights to the death are the norm. Hell's Prisoner" is the powerful story of one man's battle to survive in some of the world's cruellest & most inhumane prisons. Christopher Parnell wrongly accused of drug trafficking found himself catapulted into the maelstrom of madness & degradation that exists within Indonesian jails. Surrounded by murderers & sadistic violent criminals he soon learned that life can be as cheap as a bowl of rice or a cigarette. During his imprisonment Parnell was subjected to unthinkable sessions of torture both physical & psychological. Left to starve & fight every day for his survival he was forced to eat everything from cockroaches to human flesh. This is an incredible tale of fatalism & bureaucracy of corruption & the horrors of prison but most of all it is a no-holds-barred account of what the human spirit can endure." ...

Collected for the first time in chronological order & featuring stories by fan-favorite writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN INC FINAL CRISIS) & the legendary Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN AMERICAN GODS) FAMILY MAN continues the arcane adventures of Vertigos chain-smoking magician John Constantine. In this volume Constantine attempts a vacation after recent events but as usual things dont go as planned. Plus Constantine must uncover the mystery of the murderous Family Man. ...