Overview
In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it. A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of 17, he became the youngest-ever member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and spent the next 5 decades living a life for which he does not ask forgiveness, only that his story finally be told, and that his family finally understand what drove him to live the way he did. With moments of terror and humour, great sadness and the simple pleasures of camaraderie and the open road, Unrepentant is a book like none other.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Edwards
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Imprint: Vintage Canada
Dimensions:
Width: 15.10cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9780307362575
ISBN 10: 0307362574
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 April 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Praise for Peter Edwards: Making sense of...evil is something Edwards does extremely well... Edwards is tenacious in his research and has spun a gripping tale. --The London Free Press Peter Edwards knows how real bad guys eat, sleep, and breathe, and on the page brings them to life--even the dead ones--better than any other true crime writer. --Linwood Barclay, international bestselling author In the biker world the highest compliment you can pay to another guy is that he is 'solid.' It means trustworthy. Dependable. Loyal. Lorne Campbell, for the sake of his brothers, took the stand and confessed to a crime that he had not been implicated in, in any way, knowing that he might well spend the rest of [his] life in prison. It doesn't get any more solid than that. --Steve Earle, Grammy Award-winning singer/ songwriter The amazingly self-revelatory, and often darkly humorous, self-portrait of a Canadian underground legend; by turns perverse, hilarious, terrible, sad and intensely human--I was sorry when Unrepentant ended. This book rings true. --Mick Lowe, award-winning author of Conspiracy of Brothers Peter Edwards is one of the best crime writers in Canada. --Michel Auger, author of The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter
Author Information
PETER EDWARDS is the organized-crime beat reporter for the Toronto Star and the bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books and one young adult novel. His works have been published in four languages. Edwards is a member of Top Left Entertainment, a production development company, and an executive producer for the Citytv series Bad Blood, created by New Metric Media and aired on Netflix. His book One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police and the Ipperwash Crisis was made into the Gemini Award–winning movie One Dead Indian by Sienna Films that aired on CTV. Edwards was awarded an eagle feather from the Union of Ontario Indians and a gold medal from the Centre for Human Rights. His book Delusion (published in Europe as The Infiltrator) is on the CIA’s recommended reading list for staff and agents.
