Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture

Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. . Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene. In 1995 journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene.  He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco where mesmerizing music ecstatic dancers and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers.  Owen discovered a world where reckless hedonism was elevated to an art form and where the ever-accelerating party finally spun out of control in the hands of notorious club owner Peter Gatien and his minions. In Clubland Owen reveals how a lethal drug ring operated in a lawless black-lit realm of fantasy and how when the lights came up their excesses left countless victims in their wake.  . Praised for his risk-taking and exhilarating writing style Frank Owen has spawned a hybrid of literary nonfiction and true crime capturing the zeitgeist of a world that emerged in the spirit of “peace love unity and respect” and ended in tragedy.