The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels

Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; In the early 1990s, the Montreal branch of the Hell's Angels destroyed all the competing biker gangs - except for the tough-as-nails Rock Machine. There followed seven years of bloody conflict, leaving 160 people dead and many more injured. Then, heavily outnumbered, the Rock Machine appealed to the worldwide Bandidos Motorcycle Club, the only bikers who rivaled the Angels in terms of membership and strength. In 2001, the Rock Machine ceased to exist and became a probationary Bandidos chapter, the first on Canadian soil. The Bandidos assigned Edward Winterhalder to coordinate the transition. But things started out badly when he was arrested by the Canadian immigration authorities, and then got worse as intrigue, assassinations, and double-crosses endued. In this book, Winterhalder recalls his life and times as an outlaw biker, his involvement with the Quebec Bandidos, and his eventual disillusionment with, and exit from, the Bandidos Nation.