Damien McCrystal’s forthcoming memoir, Wasted Life, is a collection of anecdotes about an unusual and frequently chaotic life. Two decades as a journalist followed by two more in PR engorged his appetite for hedonism and mischief. 

Paul Murphy, the investigations editor at the Financial Times says, ‘I’ve been listening to Damien’s stories for 35 years. At one stage I decided they were literally unbelievable, so I investigated some of them. It turns out they were true.’