Peter Hook, bass player and founding member of Joy Division and New Order, tells the story of his second band from its emergence after Ian Curtis's death through its final dissolution. Hook's memoir covers New Order's musical innovations - pioneering the fusion of rock and electronic music that would influence generations of artists - alongside the personal conflicts that eventually destroyed the group. He writes with the intimacy of an insider about recording sessions, tours, business disasters, and the relationships among band members that deteriorated over decades. The book documents New Order's crucial role in the Manchester scene that produced The Smiths and The Happy Mondays, the group's influence on house, techno, and rave culture, and the business catastrophes at Factory Records that cost the band members their catalog rights. Hook is candid about his own drug use and difficult behavior while being harshly critical of bandmate Bernard Sumner, whose own account differs significantly. The book will fascinate fans of New Order and of the Manchester music scene more broadly, while raising questions about how bandmates remember shared experiences differently. Hook writes in a conversational style that conveys both the excitement of musical breakthrough and the bitterness of eventual dissolution.