Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black

Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time.Leaving no stone unturned in a three-year journey that begins in Austin and ends in London, Fink takes the reader back to a legendary era for music that saw the relentless AC/DC machine achieve its commercial breakthrough but also threaten to come apart. The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rockIn death, AC/DC's trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as "Bon" grows with each passing year. With unprecedented access to Bon's lovers, newly unearthed documents, and a trove of never-before-seen photos, Fink divulges startling new information about Bon's last hours to solve the mystery of how he died.Music fans around the world have been waiting for the original, forensic, unflinching, and masterful biography Bon Scott so richly deserves -- and now, finally, it's here.. But how much of it is myth?At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special -- and unlikely -- friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker

He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, with his wife and daughter. Jesse Fink was born in London in 1973. He is the author of The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, which was released in more than 20 countries and translated into ten languages. Bon: The Last Highway is his fourth book.

This one's a must-read for fans." - Library Journal"Jesse Fink is an Australian abroad and he writes like one--with wonderful Aussie terms and flavor--reaching back in time through all the haze and innuendo to try and come up with a definitive look at the origins and influences of AC/DC, and throughout makes the point in response to one contradictory quote after the other from interviewees who refute, report and build one myth upon another. At the vortex of all this are the mysterious Youngs, non-committal, intransigent and defiant. Fascinating stuff." - Charlie Starr, lead singer and guitarist of Blackberry Smoke "Fink's ability to overcome the Youngs' code of Scottish-Australian omertà is impressive a cut above other AC/DC tomes, and Fink knows it." - Classic Rock. They have their methods which work and have worked like gangbusters for decades, and while none of it is rem