Sam Nuchia is a professor at the University of Houston–Downtown.
 He previously served as an appellate judge and served 17 years with the Houston Police Department (HPD) beginning in 1967.
 Leaving HPD as Deputy Chief to become a prosecutor as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Texas, until he was tapped as Chief of Police by Mayor Bob Lanier until leaving under the Lee Brown administration.
Vappala Balachandran is an Indian national security intelligence specialist and a former Indian police officer who served 17 years in the state of Maharashtra, India and 19 years in foreign intelligence service.
 He retired as Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India in 1995 and is based in Mumbai.
Frank J. Warnke (May 18, 1933 September 23, 2011) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.
 A Native American, Warnke served 12 years in the Washington House of Representatives in Washington's 30th legislative district and 8 years in the Washington State Senate in Washington's 31st legislative district.
 He helped create the Public School Employees of Washington (PSE), a union for school district employees, and served 17 years as the organization's executive director.
General Flower Mocher (c. 1729 – 18 July 1801), was a British army officer who served 50 years in the cavalry.
 He initially obtained a commission with Hawley's Dragoons then, following 12 years service with the Horse Grenadier Guards, he served 17 years with the Dragoon Guards as their Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel.
 Two years before his appointment as a general officer he was made Colonel of the 9th Regiment of Dragoons in Ireland.
 After some years service as deputy to the commander-in-chief Ireland he retired in 1794 shortly before his appointment to the rank of full General.
Michael Alig (born April 29, 1966) is an American former club promoter, musician, and writer who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter.
 Alig was a founder and ringleader of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
William Grant "Will" Munro (February 11, 1975 – May 21, 2010) was a Toronto artist, club promoter, and restaurateur known for his work as a community builder among disparate Toronto groups.
 As a visual artist, he was known for fashioning artistic works out of underwear; as a club promoter, he was best known for his long-running Toronto queer club night, Vazaleen.
Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland is a 1999 memoir written by James St. James about his life as a Manhattan celebutante and club kid.
 The book specifically chronicles his friend Michael Alig's rise to fame, and Alig and his roommate's subsequent murder of fellow club kid and drug dealer Andre "Angel" Melendez.
 St. James was Alig's mentor, rival, and collaborator in the Manhattan party scene, and was familiar with many of its key figures.
 The memoir was later retitled "Party Monster", after the 2003 motion picture of that name starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, and Marilyn Manson.
Jean-Jacques Eydelie (born 3 February 1966 in Angoulême, Charente) is a French former footballer most noted for his role in the Marseille match-fixing scandal of 1993.
 A midfielder, Eydelie began his career with Nantes, before joining Marseille in 1992.
 His first season at Marseille was a success, with the club finishing top of the league, and winning the Champions League, but shortly after the Champions League final, it was revealed that he had contacted three players at Ligue 1 club Valenciennes (Jorge Burruchaga, Christophe Robert and Jacques Glassman) on behalf of the Marseille board, in order to offer bribes.
 Marseille needed to beat Valenciennes to secure the championship, and had induced the Valenciennes players to "go easy" in order that the Marseille players would not be overly exerted before the Champions League final.
 It was Glassman who reported the bribe, which resulted in Marseille being stripped of the 1993 French title, banned from defending the Champions League (although the win still stood), and relegated to Ligue 2.
 Eydelie was banned for a year by FIFA, given a one-year suspended sentence, and served 17 days in prison.
 Members of the Marseille board were given longer prison sentences, and Valenciennes players Burruchaga and Robert received FIFA bans for their involvement.
 Upon his return to football, Eydelie had a nomadic career, he trained for a few months at Benfica, played in England, Switzerland and back in France before retiring in 2003.
 From 2006 to 2007 he was the manager of amateur club Limoges Foot 87.
İsmail Beşikçi (born in 1939 in İskilip, Turkey) is a Turkish sociologist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer.
 He is a PEN Honorary Member.
 He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda (trumped up) charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish population in Turkey.
The Jibril Agreement was a prisoner exchange deal which took place on May 21, 1985 between the Israeli government, then headed by Shimon Peres, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (an organization often known as just 'PFLP-GC').
 As part of the agreement, Israel released 1,150 security prisoners held in Israeli prisons in exchange for three Israeli prisoners (Yosef Grof, Nissim Salem, Hezi Shai) captured during the First Lebanon War.
 This was one of several prisoner exchange agreements carried out between Israel and groups it classified as terrorist organizations around that time.
 Among the prisoners released by Israel were Kozo Okamoto - one of the perpetrators of the Lod Airport Massacre in May 1972, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and Ahmed Yassin, a Gazan Muslim Brotherhood leader who was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1983 and who later became the spiritual leader of Hamas).
 Another prisoner released was Ali Jiddah who had served 17 years for planting of a bomb near a Jerusalem hospital in 1968 that wounded nine Israelis.
 Abdullah Nimar Darwish, on the other hand, has renounced violence by Palestinians within Israeli borders.

Question: Who wrote the memoir about a friend who was a club promoter, musician , writer and served 17 years in prison for manslaughter?
Answer: James St. James