Born to Be Wild - Paperback

by Barry Bowe (Author)

A savage outlaw biker. A murdered young woman. A prison escape that fooled everyone.
The shocking true story of a man who lived two lives-one monstrous, one merciful.

Philadelphia, 1971. Bobby Nauss looks like any quiet, working-class Catholic school kid. But after graduation, he falls in with the Warlocks Motorcycle Club, one of the most violent outlaw biker gangs in America. Guns, meth, stolen cars-Bobby dives headfirst into the criminal underworld, and there is no turning back.

Liz Lande is young, beautiful, and trusting-drawn to bad boys who promise excitement. Her biggest mistake is falling in love with Bobby Nauss. It costs her everything.

The Warlocks are infamous for their brutality:

• Kidnapping young women

• Gang rapes

• Cold-blooded murders

And Bobby is no bystander. He is ultimately convicted of meth dealing, rape, and the murder of Liz Lande.

But the story doesn't end there.

In 1983, while serving time in a maximum-security prison, Bobby Nauss stages a daring escape. He flees across the country, assumes a new identity, and builds a picture-perfect life in Michigan-working hard, helping neighbors, raising a family. To everyone around him, he's a kind, generous, law-abiding man.

But has he truly changed-or is the monster still beneath the surface?

Born to Be Wild plunges you into the dark, misogynistic world of outlaw motorcycle gangs and follows Bobby Nauss across two decades-from a horrific crime, to a cunning jailbreak, to his life as a "model citizen," and finally to the moment law enforcement catches up with him.

A gripping, disturbing, and unforgettable true-crime saga.

Buy Born to Be Wild now and discover the unbelievable story behind one of America's most shocking outlaw bikers.

Author Biography

Barry Bowe stands for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. He became a writer at forty-five after being fired from a lucrative sales management position in Philadelphia in 1987. He moved to the island of St. Croix in the Caribbean and vowed to never again work in the corporate world and to learn the craft of writing. He taught algebra, geometry, and trigonometry at Country Day School, an exclusive private school, and he moonlighted as a bartender while taking correspondence courses in writing. He eventually landed a sports writing job with the territory's Daily News. As the only sports writer on the island, he covered soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, horse racing, yacht racing, boxing, golf, tennis, sailboarding, fishing, and croquet. Born to Be Wild was originally published by Warner Books in 1994 and consisted of 80,000 words and became a Main Selection of Doubleday's Book of the Month Club and was translated into German under the title: Der Wilde. At that point, Barry Bowe quit writing for the next twenty years to devote his life to betting on racehorses and delivering pizza. In 2014, the passion to create returned and he revised the original version of Born to Be Wild by restoring the 40,000 words that he'd been forced to delete by the publisher to conserve space the first time around. The revised version is 124,600 words long. Since then, he published 1964 - The Year the Phillies Blew the Pennant and 12 Best Eagles QBs. More on the drawing board for 2015.