Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition

A brutally honest rock memoir, The Heroin Diaries chronicles Mtley Cre bassist Nikki Sixx's descent into heroin addiction and his harrowing fight for recovery at the height of fame. When Mtley Cre was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent dayssometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and loversin a coke- and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares the diary entriessome poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarreof those dark times. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and surprisingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottomand his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.