Down and Out on Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill should be added to the canon of great drug books. It should stand proudly alongside Naked Lunch and Permanent Midnight, stand tall among Last Exit to Brooklyn and Wonderland Avenue as a landmark of vein-injecting oblivion-inducing action. It gets into the nitty gritty of what being a heroin addict is all about, the filth, the craving, the aching, the vomiting, while at it's core harnessing the exquisite vulnerability of addiction.
Murder Mile along with O'Neill's first book Digging The Vein are both in contention to take places in the great drug memoir/fiction oeuvre. A must for anyone who likes to read about wretched messes or those who just like a good story of redemption.
Happy Reading,
Julia
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