NEVER THE SAME AGAIN

This rock-and-roll memoir proposes an emotional connection between the murder of the author’s young girlfriend and his contracting neck cancer some years later. Narrator Kyle Hebert perfectly captures the timbre and twang of the author, a Texas punk rocker and mystery novelist (the Martin Fender series), and yanks back the curtain of the rock scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s in Austin, New York, and beyond. The book is enhanced by the addition of five remixed songs from Jesse’s seminal punk band, The Skunks, and an unedited interview with the author. Here’s proof that at least one life was saved by rock and roll. R.O. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 05]