

The book, "Breaking the Code: A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him," describes the careers of both Matter, whose biker history dates back to the Grim Reapers in Fort Dodge, and Chris Omodt, whose family had a multigenerational history of law enforcement. "You'd had to have been there to believe it, and that's where Chris comes in." The no-holds-barred story of Matter's life is chronicled in a new book, released this month, and co-authored by a retired captain from the Hennepin County sheriff's office in Minneapolis who helped send Matter to federal prison.

His expansion of the Hells Angels into Illinois escalated a decades-old war with the gang's rival, the Outlaws, who once retaliated by planting C-4 explosives under his truck. His biggest source of income? Dealing drugs. Matter was also the founder and 21-year president of the the Hells Angels motorcycle gang's Minnesota chapter. He manufactured his own line of V-twin motorcycles, was a nationally ranked pro-stock motorcycle racer and a top-fuel racer. Matter, who dropped out of Fort Dodge public schools in the eighth grade, went on to build a multimillion-dollar empire. Pat Matter's story could be considered that of a hometown boy who made good - by being very bad.
