The following is an excerpt from the Richard Farrell's What's Left of Us, which will be published on June 30, 2009, from Citadel Press.

Chapter One: Breath of God

The Acre wasn't pretty. You'd never see it on the postcards sold at the corner drugstores in...

How many female crack addicts with health insurance do you know? Not too long ago, my son Ricky called me. For three straight mornings, he had called every drug rehabilitation center in a 200-mile radius of his home in Massachusetts. Not one had a bed available for his mother --...