<p><b>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><b><br>"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What''s not to love?" NICK CAVE</b><br><br><b>"A stoned cold classic" IAN RANKIN</b><br><br><b>''Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty'' BOBBY GILLESPIE</b><br><br><b>"Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest" LUCINDA WILLIAMS<br></b><br><b>A ROUGH TRADE AND <i>MOJO </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br><br>From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy, and tells of his own personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime,