"Down and Out on Murder Mile doesn't disappoint if you're looking for a visceral, grisly experience...Fans of Irvine Welsh and Warren Ellis are sure to enjoy this dark, disturbing journey." - Metro The continuation of O'Neill's autobiographical debut, Digging the Vein (2006), even more caustic than its predecessor...whip-smart...Call it a junkie fairy tale: Boy meets girl, gets clean and lives. The whole truth with no reservations: not a pretty story, but a rare telling. - Kirkus Reviews "Fast-paced, compulsively readable portrait of a young would-be rocker junkie…the novel's consistent tone of urgency and desperation creates a gritty world of its own that compels." - Publishers Weekly "Tony O'Neill is one of my favorite new writers, and DOWN AND OUT ON MURDER MILE is his best book yet. In O'Neill's wizardlike hands, all the drugs and sex, the fierce fights and shouts and blaring rock & roll, amount to a story both horrifying and beautiful." - Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear "Finishing DOWN AND OUT ON MURDER MILE hurts. O'Neill paints a vividly original picture of addiction and recovery that made my veins thirst and my heart worry." - Josh Kilmer-Purcell, author of Candy Everybody Wants and I Am Not Myself These Days
