The Night of the Gun

David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his ''lost'' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best frie...