Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture

This investigative reporter's six year journey behind the velvet ropes of Manhattan's infamous nightclub scene is "[an] addictive exposé" (Elle).

In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-pounding music, gender-bending dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attra...