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Total pages in book: 125
Estimated words: 121728 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 487(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121728 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 487(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
As a state police corporal, Owen Decker is no stranger to working undercover. Now, as a member of the Tri-State Federal Drug Task Force, his latest assignment is to wear a prospect cut and infiltrate the Deadly Demons MC.
Unlike previous undercover assignments, this one is personal. After his sister’s fatal overdose, Decker was left to pick up the pieces and raise his young niece as his own.
However, he’s not the only one determined to help take down the meth traffickers.
Out of desperation, Sloane Parrish finds herself going head to head with the notorious MC when her drug-addicted sister, Sadie, gets tangled up with them. Despite being in over her head, Sloane’s still willing to risk everything—including her own safety—to save her baby sister before it’s too late.
Unfortunately, the Deadly Demons have no limits when it comes to protecting both their club and very profitable enterprise. So when the people Decker loves end up in the outlaw MC’s crosshairs, he regrets the day he volunteered for this assignment. But he vows not to be the only one, he’ll make sure they regret that day, too.
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Glossary of Terms
PLCB - Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
LEO - Liquor Enforcement Officer and/or Law Enforcement Officer (used for both)
PSP - Pennsylvania State Police
The Plant - A place away from stations/barracks/etc. for law enforcement/a task force to conduct clandestine criminal investigations.
Plant Manager - Person in charge of wiretapping/transcribing calls
Bid - Prison sentence/jail term
MC Chapter - The national club with a national exec committee (President, VP, etc.); Ex: Deadly Demons MC
MC Charter - Each charter is run independently, does not answer to a mother charter or a national chapter; Example: Blue Avengers MC
Sled - slang for motorcycle
A-Cert - Wire-tapping certification
TFO - Task Force Officer
UC/UCO - Undercover Agent/Officer
Printing - the outline of a concealed carry gun showing through either a shirt or garment that the person is wearing
AUSA - Assistant US Attorney
RICO - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
CW - Cooperating Witness, unpaid
CI - Confidential Informant, some are paid
Stash vehicle - A place to store their supply of drugs for dealing.
Re-upping - To refill one's drug stash
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine - Extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained
Probable cause (PC) - A legal requirement that reasonable grounds must be met before a police officer can make an arrest, conduct a search, seize property, or get a warrant.
Trap house - A residence used in the illegal drug trade. Drug houses shelter drug users and provide a place for drug dealers to supply them.
NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Character List
BAMC (Southwest Regional Charter):
Axel Jamison - President - Sergeant, Shadow Valley PD
Shane Fletcher (Fletch) - Vice President - Trooper, PA State Police
Antonio Alvarez (Rez) - Sergeant at Arms - Officer, Southern Allegheny Regional PD
Aiden Cross - Secretary - Corporal, Southern Allegheny Regional PD, Nash’s (DAMC) husband
Mike Miller - Treasurer - Officer, Pittsburgh PD
Daniel Finnegan (Finn) - Road Captain - Officer, Southern Allegheny Regional PD
Bradley Lennox (Nox) - Officer, Shadow Valley PD
Colin Crew - Senior Special Agent, DEA, Tri-State Task Force Leader
Owen Decker - Trooper, PA State Police
Danielle Montgomery (Monty) - Corrections Officer, SCI Greene
Timothy Frasier - Liquor Enforcement Officer, PA State Police
Roland North - Lieutenant, Pittsburgh PD
Other Tri-State Drug Task Force Members:
Luke Rodgers - DEA Special Agent
Luis Torres - DEA Special Agent
Ian Butler - Corporal, PA State Police
Ken Proctor - Officer, Uniontown PD
Carl Powers - Trooper, PA State Police
Sam Kruger - Corporal, Greensburg PD
Warren Reynolds - Corporal, PA State Police
Don Mullins - Narcotic Detective, Pittsburgh PD
Nova Wilder – FBI Special Agent, Organized Crime Division
Others:
Sloane Parrish - Legal assistant
Melina Jensen (Mel/MJ) - Manager at The Peach Pit
Valerie (Val) - Decker’s adopted daughter/niece
Viper - Deadly Demons president
Screw - Deadly Demons VP
Wolf – Deadly Demon in charge of the Uniontown chapter
T-Bone - Deadly Demons prospect
Rowdy - Undercover TFO from Group 1
Goose - Undercover TFO from Group 1
Sadie Parrish - Sloane’s sister
Amelia Decker - Decker’s late sister
Author’s Note
Dear readers,
This book starts approximately two months after the last chapter of Beyond the Badge: Finn (Blue Avengers MC, book 2) and a few months prior to that book’s epilogue.
“Family is family, whether by blood or by bond.”
~ Owen Decker
Chapter One
The rundown farmhouse would not be featured on the show Million Dollar Listing any time soon.
Or ever.
He originally thought the party would be held at the Deadly Demons MC’s church in Moundsville, West Virginia. While they were in West Virginia, he had no fucking clue where they were exactly.
It was safe to say he didn’t like that.
He also wasn’t thrilled with the fact he stood in the midst of a one-percenter MC trying to blend in.
But here he was.
To prepare, he had gone on a shopping spree at a thrift store to buy clothing to help him fit in. And to fit his weight gain.
He pressed a hand to his gut under his worn leather jacket.
Beer, pizza and cupcakes—the last baked by Axel Jamison’s wife—had done the trick. Every day he’d stand naked in front of the full-length mirror and watch the muscle definition he’d worked so hard to achieve slowly disappear.
He’d gone up a size in both his shirts and jeans. He only hoped when this assignment was over, the extra weight he packed on would disappear just as easily.
But he’d run out of time and the weight gain hadn’t been enough, so one afternoon a week ago, Crew walked into a task force meeting at The Plant and threw a fake, but realistic-looking, silicone belly in the middle of the conference table. The idea was fucking genius—though, he’d never tell Crew that—since it made him look like he sported a beer gut without actually having one.
However, he drew the line at fake tattoos. True bikers would be able to tell the difference between the lick-‘em-and-stick-‘em body art versus real tattoos done by an ink slinger. While he was dedicated to this job—and the task force—there was no damn way he’d volunteer to sit in a tattoo chair to get some random prison or biker tats for a temporary assignment.