Wesley Cannon Sheets
Four books.
No comfortable answers.
Investigative nonfiction, raw recovery memoir, and literary fiction from an author who stopped taking the official story at face value.
Covered by CBS News · AP · NBC · Google News
The books
Investigative Nonfiction
The Georgia Extraction
Two years in the records. Court filings, agency documents, firsthand accounts. The official story had gaps. This book shows you what was in them.
Recovery Memoir
The Life and Redemption of an Ice Addict
Not a cautionary tale. Not a recovery memoir with a tidy ending. Wesley writes about addiction the way it actually happens: messy, long, and ongoing.
Also by Wesley Cannon Sheets
Novel
Seven Minutes of Truth
He spent 40 years proving God didn't exist. Then he died for seven minutes.
Investigative Nonfiction
The Kugel Earth Hypothesis
What happens when you apply rigorous investigative methodology to the largest official narrative of all?
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From the blog
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On lying to people who love you
The skill you develop first is compartmentalization. Your family knows some of it. Your friends know a different version. The people you use with know what you actually are. And there's a version of you that talks to all three groups and keeps the stories straight.
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The Georgia Extraction
The first time I tried to get clean
I lasted eleven days. I found out later from a text I sent my sister on day twelve. She had saved the thread. When she showed me, after things were better, we both stared at the screen without saying anything.
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Wesley Cannon Sheets
Investigative author and researcher. Four published books. Covered by CBS News, AP, and NBC.