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Under and Alone is a book written by undercover ATF agent William Queen and published in 2005 which chronicles his infiltration of motorcycle gang the Mongol Nation. By 1998 Queen, a motorcycle enthusiast, was a 20 year veteran ATF agent. That year a confidential informant contacted Queen's boss, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols. This was to become one of the most extensive undercover operations inside a motorcycle gang by American law enforcement. Queen penetrated the gang successfully as alias Billy St. John, a bearded beer drinking motorcyclist. After becoming a fully patched-in member he eventually rose to the office of treasurer. As treasurer he had access to evidence of the gang's criminal activity. Initially, Queen was subjugated by members to tests of his fealty by taking part and witnessing the transportation of drugs, the trafficking of firearms, stealing motorcycles, and driving getaway cars. In his book Queen details how after 28 months he began to lose his own identity to his new persona. How he learned to battle the conflicts both within the gang and within himself. Despite the criminality of the gang Queen also came to see their camaraderie. When his undercover work isolated Queen the Mongols began to feel like family.