“Admirable . . . haunting.”

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The Times (London)

“[McKeen] gets it all in: the boozing and drugging, the violence, but also the intelligence, the loyalty, the inherent decency.”

JONATHAN YARDLEY
The Washington Post

“Essential”

BRET SOKOL
The Miami Herald

“A romp . . . deft storytelling.”
WAYNE CURTIS
The Wall Street Journal

"Mile Marker Zero is a wonderful zinger of a book.  Every page sings a story worth a Jimmy Buffett song."

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Winner

GOLD MEDAL

for NONFICTION

Florida Book

Awards

“Brings back a world in which kids played outside unsupervised, when grandmothers wore pearls and smelled of talcum powder and cooked hot breakfasts, and when a mother might spend Sunday morning immersed in the Miami Herald but felt it her duty to have grace said at the dinner table.”
      JOY WALLACE DICKINSON

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