[FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar

[Pamela McCorduck]

I say big congratulations too!  It goes onto my shopping list 
immediately.

Pamela


On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Stephen Guerin 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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