In the early 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist in San Francisco, was fascinated by the Hell's Angels biker club. His article about these road lords evokes a sensation, so the author decided to let go of a longer version: he spends a year to ride and writing beside them. But the adventure ends wildly: because he refuses to share his royalties, the angels leave the writer on the road, half -dead and with a broken head ...

The book will download you to the underworld of the club whose name has the worst sound among all the biker gangs of California. Thompson describes in eloquent, impressive details of their machines, own laws, slang, origin and everyday existence ...