{"product_id":"clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-isbn-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the decadent nineties club scene.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300501180645,"sku":"NP9780767917353","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780767917353.jpg?v=1767723859","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-isbn-9780767917353","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}