Bøger af Donald Charles Davis

Framed by the true story of the murder of Black Piston patch holder Zack Tipton in Jacksonville Beach, Florida in June, 2014 Twilight of the Outlaws rips open the veil that shrouds the world of outlaw motorcycle clubs, reveals the social and economic forces that are hastening their end and exposes the corrupt law enforcement agencies that will stop at nothing to destroy them. Author and motorcycle club expert Donald Charles Davis traces the history of this society of disenfranchised men, the code of ethics that binds them and the ever deepening intrigues that make them more fascinating now than ever before.

Dave Burgess, son of a career Marine and the nephew of the founders of the Mustang Ranch, managed the Mustang, built and owned the last remaining piece of the original brothel and became a Hells Angel when he was 40. Along the way he made friends and enemies. Most of his enemies worked for the government. In July 2007, Dave Burgess was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana after a supposedly routine traffic stop in Evanston, Wyoming. Forty-five days later the drug charges were dropped and he was arrested instead for possession and interstate transportation of child pornography. One of the children portrayed in what is still the largest kiddie porn collection ever discovered was the 14-year-old daughter of a fellow Hells Angel. Angels throughout the world were outraged. Hells Angels haters and police gloated. Burgess was convicted after a hasty, four day trial and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. And, he was framed. This book describes how.

Both the waning of America and the waning of the American novel have coincided with the decline of newspapers. Fortunately, a long, funny and sexy newspaper novel called The Working Press might yet save us all. The plot of The Working Press relentlessly unfolds at a third rate daily called the Boston Ledger-Transcript in 1980 just before the paper begins its long swan dive into bankruptcy. Typically, newspaper novels are funny books with sharp characters and The Working Press overflows with memorable characters and mirth. The publisher is a former slaver who detests reporters and frogs and would rather own a cable television company. The editor is embittered and mean. The sports writers are all morons. The night editor is world weary and damned. The hero is Sam Melton, a haunted war veteran who stumbled into journalism and doesn't have the sense to quit. His girlfriend is a Wellesley educated psychotherapist and when she betrays him he consoles himself with a beautiful and promiscuous young reporter whose life was ruined by Gone With The Wind. Melton is determined to prove that an old gangster named Frank "The Fat Tuna" Bompalarca murdered his own niece as part of a real estate deal. As he pursues his story Melton infuriates defense contractors, fire captains, librarians and cops. He disappoints women. He witnesses the birth of a new religion, argues with ghosts, makes up sources, ruins dinners, writes bad prose, collects dozens of parking tickets and gets evicted, mugged and roughed up. He can never quite get a handle on reality and he inadvertently changes the course of history on his way to becoming someone else. If you care about newspapers, novels or America you should read The Working Press. And, you should wear your old clothes when you read because sooner or later the book will make you fall down laughing. Then it will make you cry.

In this collection of funny, smart, strongly plotted and heartbreaking stories Donald Charles Davis writes about six American dreamers including a motorcycle outlaw, a television weatherman, an art forger, a family man, a fisherman and an actor. Then he tells a seventh tale about the writer who imagined them all. Other books may claim to make you laugh and cry. A Summer's Worth Of Bitter Ends is one of the few books published in the last decade that actually will.

A year after the fact, the brief, deadly, biker brawl in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015 remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Nine people died and nineteen more were wounded. Numerous news outlets "explained" the event as a "real life Sons of Anarchy episode." Until now, that has been as insightful as writers for numerous national and international publications have dared to be. From the very beginning, local authorities in Texas have tightly controlled the narrative of what happened in Waco that Sunday in May in order to save themselves from embarrassment and criminal and civil liability. Almost two hundred people face long prison terms for conspiring to act criminally although so far local prosecutors have refused to state what each of those defendants actually did other than try to survive. The prosecutors' refusal to talk about the case has led to widespread and often wild speculation. Now, the shroud of propaganda and lies has finally been lifted. In the exhaustively researched The Twin Peaks Ambush: A True Story About The Press, The Police And The Last American Outlaws, Donald Charles Davis tells the true story of that tragic day to you. And what you read will surprise, touch and outrage you.

This is a story about deluded mythmakers; clueless judges; morally bankrupt prosecutors; bad lawyers; daydream believers; and crooked cops. This is a story about police propaganda and gutless reporting. This is a story about outlaws in America, particularly motorcycle outlaws, at the moment when the America that once was - the America of revolutionaries, moonshiners, pioneers, runaways, backyard inventers, shade tree mechanics, humble heroes, tailfins and great novelists; that America; the America that never lost a war - gasps, thins, grows blind, wraps itself up in its blanket and wanes. This is a story about justice. Everybody already knows the story of the menace on motorcycles - the raids on defenseless hamlets; the defiance of convention and law; the unabashed devotion to lawlessness; the horrible growling as the packs of motorcycles approach; the disheveled brutes who take what they want; the wrecked bars; streets become rivers of beer bottles; the frightened and humiliated cops; the maid debauched on a pool table; her savagely beaten boyfriend begging for mercy for himself. Abandoning her. And she loves it. And she loves it. You can see it in your mind's eye can't you? She loves it. She will never be the same. Afterward, one of the thugs hands her his calling card. A beat poet sings their praises. A beat novelist feeds them psychotropic drugs which makes them all psychopaths "What are you rebelling against, Johnny," a black and white girl asks a black and white outlaw. "Whadda ya got," Marlon Brando replies. They kill a nice boy with a gun at a rock concert. They corrupt America with drugs. "He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good." They bully everybody. Don't make eye contact with them. They are the mafia on wheels. It is such a perfectly delicious story that it never needs to be revised. All it needs is a new name for Billy Jack every time it is told. Its roots are in America's id. It is the same now as it was just yesterday, in 1965 - a mere lifetime ago. Ask any prosecutor with some bikers to convict.

Out Bad is a true story about motorcycle outlaws and modern American police. It begins with the painstakingly assembled, never before told story of the murder of a Mongols Motorcycle Club member named Manuel Vincent "Hitman" Martin. Martin was shot off his motorcycle on the Glendale Freeway in Los Angeles about 2 a.m. on October 8, 2008. Initial reports alleged that Martin had been murdered by the Hells Angels and that he died as part of an ongoing, "furious feud" between the two groups. The truth behind the murder is much more interesting and disturbing than that. Martin died on the final day of a three-year-long, undercover investigation of the Mongols by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ATF called it "Operation Black Rain." Both Black Rain, and the federal prosecution that followed, were so cynically unfair and corrupt that some Mongols still believe that Martin was actually murdered by government agents. Together, the investigation and the prosecution probably cost $150 million. The initial press coverage of the case was manipulated by the ATF. News of the subsequent legal wrangling was virtually non-existent because the Department of Justice wanted to keep the case as secret as possible. Out Bad, draws on numerous public and confidential sources including numerous sources within the Mongols, the Hells Angels and the ATF to accurately reveal what really happened. Out Bad is a startling ride down a dark road nobody yet knows. Here's your ticket. Climb on. There ain't no seatbelt.

In 2008, Donald Charles Davis, as The Aging Rebel, began writing news reports, essays and reviews aimed at an audience of motorcycle outlaws. The 50 selections in this book were originally published on the web at www.agingrebel.com. Readers have described the site as "William Saroyan meets Hunter Thompson." "What sets this site apart from everything else out there," one fan wrote, "is the amazing literary coverage (journalism in probably its finest form) of the most riveting real-life story lines imaginable in this age of the celebration of the vapid and irrelevant. Rebel's writing makes me laugh at what's not funny. The work is a real contribution to the efforts of Western literature in general, and a celebration of true Americana. It's uplifting, unifying and edifying at once, and appropriately hilarious."