{"product_id":"clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-9780767917353","title":"Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture","description":"Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to the decadent nineties club scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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\u003ci\u003e Clubland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraised 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Manchester, England, \u003cb\u003eFrank Owen\u003c\/b\u003e received an American studies degree from Keele University, and later went on to earn his MA at the Birmingham Centre of Cultural Studies. He trained as a radio journalist at the BBC. In the 1980s he moved from London to New York to become the music editor at \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle, LA Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUS.\u003c\/i\u003e He's the author of \u003ci\u003eClubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNo Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Florida.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413013958930,"sku":"9780767917353","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f24bec09-3df0-4f4d-9c0d-61b848b10b33.jpg?v=1729339661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-9780767917353","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}