“It makes for hair-raising reading.” – The Daily Telegraph.’I’m thinking it’s a punctured lung . . . Who did this to you?’ The paramedic looked hard into my flickering eyes. As I lay dying in the back of a screaming ambulance, my main concerns should have been about life and death. But while I did want to live, it wasn’t because I loved life, but because I wanted to be around to hear the story of my survival. Life wasn’t as important to me as my ego. This was all just a popularity contest. The fights, the crews and the leadership were all just tools to be talked about. To be heard, to be seen – that was my life. To be stabbed and survive was, in my crazy world, a badge of honor. It was a story that would, of course, be spoken about.My father had always told me that the smart ones go unheard. I grew up believing that, but the feelings I gained from this popularity contest – a contest I felt I was winning – were unmatched.Struggling to stay alive with a gaping wound across my back, I desperately wondered how I got to this point. My knife-wielding opponent was not the attacker; it had been an act of self-defense. He’d been defending himself against an ego-driven, menacing thug who was intent on hurting him. That thug was me. With my breaths getting shorter from my pierced lung, I closed my eyes . . .In a hole of anxiety and depression, Luke Kennedy resorted to drugs, alcohol and fighting in a desperate bid to silence his frantic mind. Soon he was leading a street-fighting crew, and constantly coming close to killing others or being killed. Tortured by the voices in his head, Luke began looking for an out. Eventually he found it.

ISBN: 9780992516604

AUTHOR: LUKE S. KENNEDY
ISBN: 9780992516604
Publisher: DP DANIEL PRESS
Subtitle: A THUG’S JOURNEY TO ENLIGHTENMENT
Author: LUKE S. KENNEDY