Product Description

'Owen writes fast and tough, like a cop flick voice-over - if anything, Clubland Confidential is Robin Moore's The French Connection remixed for the "chemical generation" ' The Guardian Clubland Confidential is the true story of the rise and fall of a decadent nocturnal empire that stretched over several American cities and spawned its own subculture of celebrities and wannabes. Journalist, Frank Owen spent nearly a decade inside the nightclubs of the 1990s - an era when disco gave way to more unsettling dance music, cocaine was supplanted by Ecstacy and heroin, 'clubkids' mingled with bully boys, transvestites danced with stockbrokers, and celebrities looked on. But as the drugs got out of control, their world became murkier and slowly began to implode. As clubland decadence turned to darkness, its self-publicised king, Michael Alig, committed one of the most notorious crimes of New York's recent history - the violent murder of Angel Melendez. With his friends fleeing for cover, a tangled web of mafia-related crimes begins to emerge and the secrets of New York nightlife are dragged through the courts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #838984 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Publishers Weekly
'It's a treat for fans of true crime and armchair party animals'

San Francisco Chronicle
"Clubland is a positively riveting true crime story to be enjoyed"

Gay Times
"Serious stuff...I lapped it up"

Customer Reviews

Eye opening look a American clubland
This is an excellent book which looks at all aspects of the life around the underworld in NY clubs. It mainly looks at at the legal case of club owner Peter Gatien and the highly publiciesed build up of the case. The book spins off to look at:
Gangsters
Low level drug dealers
DEA agents
Party promoters
I read this book on holiday and it kept me entertained throughout,