Every Happy Ending implies a t-so-happy beginning, and David Rat's story-from a groundbreaking career as the drummer of the 'Noise-Rock' cult band Rat At Rat R to a devastating addiction to heroin-follows a path from soaring heights (and highs) to the hellish basement of desperate addiction (the lowest of all possible lows). David Rat's gripping memoir is written t in conventional prose but rather, true to his highly artistic nature, in modern free-verse. His story documents t only his addiction but new-found loves, and lost loves too, and ultimately focuses on the source of his eventual recovery-his young son James. Indeed, fatherhood was David Rat's inspiration, as well as his motivation, to beat the needle. Brutally honest, gripping and openly apologetic, David Rat's story stands as a testament to hope, as well as a tribute to young James, and confirms that even in the darkest of circumstances a Happy Ending is still possible.