Hero of the Underground

This New York Times bestselling gritty memoir Hero of the Underground offers a no-holds-barred look at the twisted underbelly of a seemingly perfect life. Jason Peter an All-American football player captain of the National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers first round NFL draft pick. . . and heroin addict. I wasn''t afraid of death. How could I be? I lived under death''s shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin twenty sleeping pills drink a bottle of vodka and still survive a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you.When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . . I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn''t going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun load the thing place the barrel in my mouth and blow my fucking brains out.Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan this is the book he''d have written. Flat-out mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing. ―Jerry Stahl author of Permanent Midnight