…..”There I was, sitting on a bench listening to my attorney, feeling small and frightened as anyone could feel at the prospect of losing his freedom when Mahin burst through the courtroom’s heavy wooden doors, pushing past the guard and taking off toward the judge…..she wasted no time before pressing into his hands a business card and a letter she’d written on my behalf, detailing my progress and noting that I was receiving drug counseling and using my spare time to go to schools to talk to kids about my career and all the ways I’d fallen because of my addiction to alcohol and drugs. ‘Sending him to jail would not help him at all,’ Mahin said insistently.”

However, I Am Charlie Wilson is far from a droll and depressing read. Within its pages are the irrefutable moments of faith and fortitude: the serendipitous circumstances that aligned Charlie Wilson with allies even in the midst of dope fiends and drug dealers; the insistence of a wife that led to his discovery of—and recovery from— prostate cancer; and the past and present stars that championed him, believed in him and set forth a career trajectory in motion that helped Charlie Wilson to meet, and then surpass, any level of success he had ever imagined or earned before.

From the stories behind his biggest hits, the life-changing hip-hop alliance with Master P and Snoop Dogg…..(please click here for the full-length review at soultracks.com)