No Angel

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews ATF agent Jay Dobyns co-author of No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton and published by Crown.

Jay “Jaybird” Dobyns is the unconventional, full-bore federal agent who achieved worldwide notoriety as one of America’s most daring and talked-about law enforcement officers.  After more than twenty years of undercover assignments that targeted the world’s most deadly criminals and their organizations, Jay was infamously “outed” following an unprecedented and successful infiltration of the Hells Angels outlaw biker gang.

After a record-setting athletic career as a wide receiver for the University of Arizona Wildcats,Jay traded his football pads for a badge and gun as a Special Agent with America’s violent crime police force - the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).  Jay’s introduction to the street was immediate, vicious and nearly fatal. Within a week in the field he was taken hostage and shot through the back and chest.

Feeling energized, or as he puts it,"bulletproofed" by the experience, "Jaybird" actively sought ever more dangerous undercover assignments, posing as gunrunner, drug dealer,enforcer and hit man.  Self-immersed in the violent underworld of criminal gangs, his obsession to bring down the world’s most dangerous felons left him struggling to live up to his own ideals as a husband and father. Visit his website www.jaydobyns.com