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