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Product details
- ISBN 9780753512562
- Weight: 242g
- Dimensions: 130 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2007
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Abused as a child by his local priest, Brian O'Dea, a once ordinary young man, became a rebel, using and selling drugs for the escape and excitement they offered. Soon he was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction.
Eventually he quit the trade - and the drugs - and was working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara, when the authorities finally caught up with him. Extracts of Brian's prison diary - perceptive, funny and alarming - are interleaved with a vivid re-telling of his outlaw years and the ultimate recognition of the things in his life that were worth living for.
Brian O'Dea is a film and television producer in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and son.
