Hero of the Underground (Paperback)

As captain of the college football national champion Nebraska Cornhuskers, Jason Peter was the master of all he surveyed, whipped to a frenzy by his own power and ambition. But just a few years later, his NFL career in ruins after devastating injuries, he found himself consumed by addictions: first painkillers, then crack, and finally heroin, ingested in quantities that would have killed most people. In "Hero of the Underground", Jason Peter tells his story with utter candor, an athlete's attitude and a junkie's single-minded obsessive clarity. Prowling the pre-dawn streets of Manhattan, strung out and fearing he has murdered his girlfriend...flying cross country in a chartered jet with two high-priced call girls and His and Theirs piles of coke and heroin...crawling inch by inch through shag carpet toward the door of a last-ditch Los Angeles hotel with the utter conviction that he is being surveyed through the peephole...these and other vivid scenes punctuate a life that is part Bukowski (without the exhausted world-weariness), part Burroughs (both William and Augusten), and part A Million Little Pieces (except it all really happened).

General

Imprint:	Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Jason Peter
Dimensions:	210 x 139 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Tall rack
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-56103-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with drug & alcohol abuse Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > American football Books > Biography > Sport Promotions
LSN:	0-312-56103-2
Barcode:	9780312561031

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