The story reflects a reality often glossed over: what happens to some kids born into a circle of poets, artists and dealers when one of their parents gets too heavily into smuggling and using drugs. If it weren't such a universal cautionary family tale, you might be forgiven for reading the story as one long name drop of the who's who in the cultural revolution: from the first chapter, in which Charley recalls experiences of meeting Jimi Hendrix, where he was famously filmed on stage with the guitar god, to being driven around by Tara Browne in his infamous sports car. On to being a page boy and also a child drug mule to smuggle an illicit gift for Mick Jagger at his wedding to Bianca in St. Tropez, as well as meeting with Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith in Switzerland when Leary is on the run from federal agents. As he and his brother grow up they are left to contend with a loving but heavily drug addicted father getting deeper into dangerous gang level drug setups, rip offs and raids by the police - who may also be in on the setups. One brother is rescued by a godfather to go to Ivy League schools in California, the younger one is left at the centre of the drug dealing antics. This is his account of what happened next in one person's struggle to reach solid ground.