Book description
Blighted by a neck injury at a young age, sports superstar Jason
Peter was forced to retire prematurely. In just a few short years,
Peter's brilliant career was in ruins as he found himself consumed by
painkillers, then crack and finally heroin. His addiction transformed
him from a pumped-up athletic gladiator to a small, wispish shell of
his former self.
In Millionaire Junkie, Peter tells of the lost days and
nights spent prowling the streets of Manhattan, flying cross-country
with high-class call girls and doing piles of heroin and cocaine. It
is a visceral, ragged-edged story of true glory, self-destruction,
addiction and, finally, redemption.
Jason Peter was an NFL first-round draft pick by the Carolina
Panthers, where he played for five years. He is now married and lives
in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he co-hosts a radio programme for ESPN.
Tony O'Neill is a poet and novelist, whose books include Digging
the Vein and Songs from the Shooting Gallery. He lives in
New York.
