Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Story
Comment: This is a great story, what surprised me was that it was not one sided at all. He even recalls a
time when police were, lets just say, not acting as they should be. Great read, took only a few
days, I recommend it for anyone, law enforcement or not.
Customer Rating: Summary: talk about courage ...
Comment: as with most books i've read, there is always something i see or hear that piques my interest in a
topic/subject matter creating a domino effect that leads to obsessive reading. this seems to be the
case here: "gimme shelter" led to sonny barger's "hell's angel" which led to the "gangland"
television series and then to searching amazon.com for books about outlaw biker clubs, starting with
"under and alone".
the first chapter of this book was such an effective teaser that
it actually fooled me into believing the book was ghost-written due to the author not surviving his
undercover assignment ... it worked, because i couldn't put it down.
the thought of a
law enforcement officer having the courage to take such an assignment is one thing ... to follow
through with that assignment and actually become a full-patched member of such an organization is
simply amazing. even more impressive is the fact that queen does such an excellent job of taking
the reader along with him ... a true "fly on the wall" perspective throughout the book.
/>every chapter contains moments where you feel as if queen wouldn't survive his assignment and you
almost breathe a sigh of relief when oftentimes, a random moment of good fortune is all that saves
him.
what makes "under and alone" such a good read is that the action never lets up
... it is nothing but a continuous series of battles: the battle to hide his true identity from a
group in which every member is a potential murderer, the battle to portray himself as outlaw biker
material yet not participate in criminal activity, the battle of being a father to his kids and
maintain their safety during/after the assignment, the struggle of actually developing a fraternal
relationship with men who he will eventually be sending to prison and the constant battle with the
expected ineptitude of the agency responsible for keeping him alive. the best battle of all,
however, is the continuous grief queen endures from one particular mongol ... "red dog".
/>i found myself constantly flipping to the pictures in order to place a face with the name of those
mongols he writes about ... even "red dog".
the book left me with a feeling of
apprectiation that there are people out there willing to do such dangerous work voluntarily. my
only regret is that there is understandably no "where are they now" chapter because i would really
like to know how certain mongols personally felt about queen and the success of his undercover work.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Required reading if interested in motorcycle gangs
Comment: Billy Queen is clearly an amazingly smart and tough guy. His tale of inflitrating the Mongrols,
moving from 'Hang Around' to 'Prospect' to Treasurere and then Vice President of the local chapter
is fascinating and well written. And it will quickly disabuse you of any notion that the the
Mongols are OK guys have chosen their own path. While some people may have been OK when they joined,
Billy makes clear the gang and its members are all to happy to hurt and kill with little or no
reason.
Things the book does really well: Give a feel for day to day life in the gang,
outline historical background to the Mongols/Hells Angels flue, give a sense of Billy's double life-
knowing his gang friends would kill him at the drop of the hat, and that a large chunk of ATF would
rather see everything he'd risked his life for throw away then chance the smallest public
embarrassment.
The things I found lacking: Would have to liked to know even more about
the gangs structure and the relationship between the head chapter (Mother) and the local chapters,
would have liked to see more detailed sketches on even more of the members. Still, these are pretty
trivials issues.
If you are interested in motorcycle gangs this book is required
reading.
