Présentation de l'éditeur
The catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of worship for Christians. When surveyed in the early 1800s, the sewers of Paris yielded gold, jewels, and relics of the revolution. And thousands of people lived in the subway and train tunnels of New York City in the 1980s and '90s.
What secrets do the Las Vegas storm drains keep? What discoveries wait in the dark? What's beneath the neon?
Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years.
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a flood. He parties with naked crack-heads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it's least expected, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Biographie de l'auteur
Matthew O'Brien was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the Atlanta area. He has lived in Las Vegas since 1997. His fiction has been published in Red Rock Review, In the Shadow of the Strip (a collection of short stories published by the University of Nevada Press), and other literary journals. His nonfiction has been published in several magazines and newspapers, including Las Vegas Life, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Tucson Weekly, the Reno News & Review, and Las Vegas CityLife, where he is currently news editor.
