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Jeffrey has nowhere to go when Bill, his sugar-daddy boyfriend,
croaks. But before he sets off into the bright glare of LA, he's
sure to grab a few parting mementos: cash, a gun, some drugs, and
one ancient, metal film canister that contains a treasure greater
than all the rest combined: a tape taken from the scene of the
Sharon Tate murders that supposedly features a drug-fuelled orgy.
Jeffrey stashes the goods and promises himself to get clean before
selling the merchandise. Randal is the fallen scion of a great
Hollywood family. His habit and his rehab bills have long been
overlooked by his indulgent father, but with him now dead and gone,
he's left to the zealous sanctimony of his younger brother, who has
enrolled him in Clean and Serene, a celebrity treatment center run
by Dr. Mike, America's TV doctor. It is there that Randal meets
Jeffrey. A plan is hatched by the new friends to unload the sex
tape, but things do not go even remotely as planned. In the end,
lives are lost, habits resumed, and careers squashed. It even snows
in Las Vegas in this fast-paced, tightly plotted junkie page-turner
from Tony O'Neill.
Taking up where 'Red Army General' left off, O'Neill begins with
Operation Mars, the massive undercover operation to trap United's
'top boys', and reveals the truth behind their headline-making
Crown Court trial and their eventual acquittal.
Based on his own experiences as an addict and sidesman to diverse
music acts, Tony O'Neill's 'Digging the Vein' explores LA's drug
sub-culture - a slice of life that few tourists will ever get to
see.
At the tender age of fifteen, groundbreaking lead singer Cherie
Currie joined a group of talented girls--Joan Jett and Lita Ford on
guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drums--who could rock
like no one else.
Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, The Runaways
catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major
stadiums--headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van
Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie while riding a wave of hit songs
and platinum albums, and touring the world.
A shocking, funny, and touching re-creation of a bygone era of
rock and roll that chronicles the Runaways' rise to fame and
ultimate demise, Neon Angel is also an intensely personal account
of Currie's struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence in a
decadent, high-pressure music scene--a world of uncontrolled excess
where she and her unsupervised bandmates had to grow up fast and
experience things that no teenage girls should.
After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a
junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's
most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past
failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his
wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim
his life.
In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill
re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering
heroin addict.
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