Chapter 2

But none of them knew this kid was about to make every mechanic there look like a fool.The Iron Rail sat at the dead end of Michigan Avenue, where Detroit stopped pretending. No signs, no lights, just a concrete bunker with Harley-Davidsons lined up like soldiers outside, and a parking lot full of leather and smoke. Every summer, the Hells Angels Detroit chapter rolled in for what they called the gathering: fifteen to twenty riders, chrome pipes, thunder that rattled the windows of every house three blocks out.And at the center of it all: Garrett Steel, fifty years old, president of the Detroit chapter for eleven years straight, a man who settled arguments with his fists and never lost one. His word was law in this parking lot. His temper was the weather. And his bike, a 1972 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead they called Black Fury, was sacred. Nobody touched Black Fury. Nobody sat on it. Nobody even leaned against it after dark.That bike had crossed every state line in America. Garrett's father built the engine by hand in 1971. It was more than metal; it was bloodline.So, when Black Fury died in the middle of Interstate 94—engine sputtering, coughing, then nothing—Garrett didn't call a tow truck. He called Dale Prescott. Dale ran the biggest garage in Wayne County: forty years in the business, a wall of certificates behind his desk. He showed up in a company truck with two assistants and a diagnostic scanner that cost more than most people's cars.Thirty minutes. That's how long Dale spent under the hood. He stood up, wiped his hands, shook his head."Can't figure it. Might be the whole engine block. I'd need to tear it down at my shop. Two, maybe three weeks."Garrett stared at him. "You're telling me you can't fix it?""I'm telling you it's complicated.""Get out of my sight before I make it complicated for you."Dale packed his tools and left without another word. The crowd watched him go. Nobody said anything, but a few of them smirked. The great Dale Prescott, forty years of certificates, couldn't even get a diagnosis.

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