{"title":"Jason Peter","description":"JASON PETER grew up in Middletown, New Jersey. He was an All American and a member of three National Championship football teams at the University of Nebraska, co-captaining the championship team. He was also a National Football League first-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers, where he played for four years before injuries forced him to retire. He is married and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he co-hosted a sports radio program, The Spread,  for ESPN. TONY O'NEILL is a poet and novelist whose books include Down and Out on Murder Mile and Digging the Vein. He lives in New York.","products":[{"product_id":"hero-of-the-underground-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Hero of the Underground: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling gritty memoir \u003ci\u003eHero of the Underground\u003c\/i\u003e offers a no-holds-barred look at the twisted underbelly of a seemingly perfect life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Peter, an All-American football player, captain of the National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers, first round NFL draft pick. . . and heroin addict. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI wasn't afraid of death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn't going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he'd have written. Flat-out, mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing.\" --Jerry Stahl, author of \u003ci\u003ePermanent Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51459130556639,"sku":"9780312561031","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vntaXgg6bp9780312561031.webp?v=1790362577"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jason-peter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}