[FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar

[Douglas Roberts]

Wow, that's cool!  Congrats, Mike!

--Doug

On 10/3/06, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, I just noticed on Amazon that Mike's new book is out!
> http://tinyurl.com/ogn79
>
> Book Description:
> Dope Double Agent is a war on drugs story, one that starts in the 60s and
> only
> ends with the last lines of the book. More than this, it is the story of a
> young
> Berkeley student--and occasional drug user--who turns into an insider
> expert in
> the drug war with a personal agenda to subvert and correct it. He checks
> in as a
> heroin patient, works the streets of New York, dips into worlds of PCP and
> LSD,
> and seeks the sources of crack, heroin and ecstasy. The delusions of the
> experts, the public and the politicians amaze him and make him think the
> double
> agent job will be easy. Instead it is impossible. He fails, spectacularly
> so on
> such hallowed ground as the National Academy of Sciences and the National
> Institutes of Health. Come behind the scenes and watch the drug policy
> emperor
> march along for decades thinking he wears a new suit of clothes.
>
> It looks like it is a little cheaper on Lulu Press.
> http://tinyurl.com/eqlku
>
> -Steve
>
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