Hero of the Underground: a Memoir Reprint edition

Hero of the Underground is the riveting New York Times bestseller.

I wasn?t afraid of death. 

How could I be? I lived under death?s shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you.

When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . .

I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn?t going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out.

And all?

of my problems?

would be?

solved.

?Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he?d have written. Flat-out, mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing.? ?Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight