When first published as "Disco Bloodbath", it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré -- including murder.
The shocking true story of the rise and fall of Michael Alig -- one of NYC's premiere nightclub promoters and "king of the Club Kids"; eventual drug addict and murderer of Angel Melendez -- as told by James St. James, close friend to Alig and scene "insider" at that time.