Hard Road
Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
By Peter Edwards | Publisher: Random House of Canada
About the book
The founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life with bestselling author Peter Edwards.
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, whose own depictions of prison time are some of the most searing you'll ever read.
Editions of Hard Road
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780345816085
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780345816092
- EBook
- ISBN 9780345816108
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The founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life with bestselling author Peter Edwards.
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, whose own depictions of prison time are some of the most searing you'll ever read.
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What is Hard Road about?
The founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life with bestselling author Peter Edwards.
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, whose own depictions of prison time are some of the most searing you'll ever read.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Hard Road?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Biography and non-fiction prose > True stories / true accounts of events > True crime
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Hard Road?
Peter Edwards
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Hard Road is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780345816085) and paperback(ISBN 9780345816092) and ebook(ISBN 9780345816108)
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