William S.Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the teats and author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism he addict"s life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again. An original, first-hand account which outraged fifties America, Junky remains one of the most raw and mesmerizing accounts of heroin addiction ever written.