The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

by Nikki Sixx and Rantz A. Hoseley

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Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.

When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived. Brutally honest, utterly riveting and shockingly moving, THE HEROIN DIARIES follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
  • ISBN10 1847392067
  • ISBN13 9781847392060
  • Publish Date 1 September 2008 (first published 18 September 2007)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 432
  • Language English