A captivating, hauntingly sad story of music, madness, and the Manic Street Preachers, this is a dazzlingly written fictionalized account of the lead singers tortured life Richard has everything to live for, but it doesnt feel that way to himnot as long as he has a voice in his head telling him hed be better off dead. The one thing that might save him is that hes in A captivating, hauntingly sad story of music, madness, and the Manic Street Preachers, this is a dazzlingly written fictionalized account of the lead singers tortured life Richard has everything to live for, but it doesnt feel that way to him—not as long as he has a voice in his head telling him hed be better off dead. The one thing that might save him is that hes in an increasingly successful band; but the demons that nag him wont be persuaded. In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the U. S. with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally dead in November 2008. Now Richard tells the story of his life—and disappearance—as he might have told it; set in the 1980s and 1990s, its a compelling, tragic account of one mans battle with his own worst enemy—himself.