“On Tuesday, I was a respected civil trial lawyer making six-figures. On Wednesday, I woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed charged with attempted murder…and then it got worse.”
Joseph W. Naus was living the American Dream. He’d survived a brutal childhood, graduated from Pepperdine Law School, and become a successful attorney. Then one night, his American Dream-life became a nightmare when his sex and alcohol addictions collided and exploded.
The reviews are in: Straight Pepper Diet is a page-turner extraordinaire. Joseph’s aide memoire, first-person writing style makes readers feels as if they are invisible witnesses to Joseph’s journey—as a child with his mom scoring heroin in Casa Blanca, as a practicing Los Angeles lawyer, into the cringe-worthy world of a practicing sex addict and alcoholic, incarceration, into rehab and the rooms of Twelve-Step recovery, and much more.
Straight Pepper Diet is a book about surviving one’s own wreckage. It’s harrowing, sometimes hilarious, and surprisingly hope-filled.
“On Tuesday, I was a respected civil trial lawyer making six-figures. On Wednesday, I woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed charged with attempted murder…and then it got worse.”
Straight Pepper Diet is a book about surviving one’s own wreckage. It’s harrowing, sometimes hilarious, and surprisingly hope-filled.