Karl McMillen, Jr., deserved a piece of the Pacific paradise. He’d plumbed his way up from screw-fittings and sweat into mega-business ownership and multi-millions. He’d earned the azure-awesome view that he woke to every magical morning. And he’d earned the ideal family at his side. A dynamic wife and two bright, talented sons with sky’s-the-limit potential.
But that storm…
He never saw it coming. It hit hard and it hit fast. The grinding gales of addiction ripped apart everything he had.
How do you go from planning exotic family vacations and evaluating real estate investments to planning prison visits and evaluating rehab centers and criminal defense pleas? How do you watch your surfer-champion sons transform into drug lords? Inmates? How do you watch your entire family die, one by one?
Triumphs and Tragedies: A True Story of Wealth and Addiction chronicles top-of-the-world success juxtaposed against a downside of life no one should have to abide. A side that proves that some things, money cannot buy.
