Clubland Confidential - Softcover

Frank Owen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091885787 ISBN 13: 9780091885786

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2004

Synopsis

'Owen writes fast and tough, like a cop flick voice-over - if anything, Clubland Confidential is Robin Moore's The French Connection remixed for the "chemical generation" ' The Guardian Clubland Confidential is the true story of the rise and fall of a decadent nocturnal empire that stretched over several American cities and spawned its own subculture of celebrities and wannabes. Journalist, Frank Owen spent nearly a decade inside the nightclubs of the 1990s - an era when disco gave way to more unsettling dance music, cocaine was supplanted by Ecstacy and heroin, 'clubkids' mingled with bully boys, transvestites danced with stockbrokers, and celebrities looked on. But as the drugs got out of control, their world became murkier and slowly began to implode. As clubland decadence turned to darkness, its self-publicised king, Michael Alig, committed one of the most notorious crimes of New York's recent history - the violent murder of Angel Melendez. With his friends fleeing for cover, a tangled web of mafia-related crimes begins to emerge and the secrets of New York nightlife are dragged through the courts.

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Review:

"Clubland is a compulsive page-turner" -- The Miami Herald

"Clubland is a positively riveting true crime story to be enjoyed" -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Riveting" -- OK Magazine

"Serious stuff...I lapped it up" --Gay Times

"immensely entertaining" --Boston Globe

'It's a treat for fans of true crime and armchair party animals' --Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher:

Drugs, dancing, money, madness, crime and corruption – a secret world unveiled

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0091885787
• ISBN 13: 9780091885786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336