Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer and editor Matthew O'Brien explored the black-and-gray underworld of the Las Vegas flood-control system for four years. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows in the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it's least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow. Beneath the Neon has garnered widespread international media attention from TV networks including ABC, CNN, ZDF (Germany), MBC (South Career), Al Jazeer (Arab news network), plus BBC radio, and publications including New York Times, LA Times, The Independent (U.K.), The Sun (UK), plus online outlets including The Daily Drudge and Suicide Girls.
