The Night of the Gun

Based on sixty recorded interviews, medical and legal records, and three years of investigative reporting, this book is a harrowing account of a reporter using the tools of journalism to fact-check his own past. David Carr's research into his years as a drug addict reveals that his odyssey to recovery, through cancer and the challenges of being a single father, was far more difficult—and, in the end, more miraculous—than he allowed himself to remember.