Jack Sutherland’s account of his descent into addiction working for the A-listers of Hollywood is unflinchingly honestAcademic,author, and newspaper columnist John Sutherland “ghosted” this uncompromising account of his adopted son Jack’s descent into drug-addled, or sex-addicted psychosis (while working as a chauffeur/personal assistant/bodyguard to Hollywood celebrities) and,after reading it, you can understand why the process made him “like Jack a little less and appreciate him as much as ever”.
The book kicks off with Jack being fired as a PA, and dubbed “the biggest fuck-up I’ve ever met” by actor Mickey Rourke (“from him,a compliment of a kind”, notes Jack drolly). This book is an account of how he ended up there, or with occasional wry comments from his father in the footnotes.
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Source: theguardian.com