Digging the Vein
A Novel
Tony O’Neill
Contemporary Press: New York, NY, 219 pages

Reviewed by Mike Ferraro

As a young man, a kid really, Tony O’Neill got strung out on heroin in Los Angeles in the wake of a promising music career and a quickie marriage gone south. For three years he battled his addiction and demons, a virtual smorgasbord of woe begotten experience filled with junky days and nights, Methadone clinics, and twelve step mishaps, eventually kicking on his own through the perseverance of will and the power and promise of redemption through love, faith and inner fulfillment. Read the rest of this entry »