Author Description

Follow the explosive page-turning story of Mark Black and his family from Oklahoma who in the 1970s, were thrust into a harsh world of psychiatric abuse facilitated by well-meaning but overzealous school administrators and psychiatric professionals driven by a misguided approach to adolescent mental health treatment. Mark's tale starts with the promise of a full life ahead, documents his demise as powerful psychotropic drugs alter his entire existence; then navigates the toughest US mental health and prison systems to find redemption and unlikely friendships with American organized crime figures John Gotti and Greg DePalma.