One thing is for certain, investigative reporter Shaun Assael asks the right questions of the right people. This is obvious as the story of the steroid guru Dan Duchaine unfolds in the pages of Steroid Nation - Assael’s book on the recent history of the anabolic steroid subculture.
While it was nice to see that Assael recognizes Duchaine as one of the “founding fathers of the steroid movement,” it was difficult for me to read the story of Dan Duchaine portrayed in Steroid Nation. Shaun Assael recently published it as a book excerpt on the ESPN the Magazine website. But like I said, Assael interviewed the right people - Dan’s friends, Will Brink, John Romano, Bruce Kneller, Patrick Arnold, Stan Antosh, Shelley Hominuk and Nancee Shwartz.
While Shelley Harvey was in England, recovering from the brain damage caused by the motorcycle accident, the woman Dan Duchaine had selected to replace her, a woman whom he had promised prize-winning legs, was about to have one of them sawed off.
