[FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar

[Michael Agar]

Very, war stories from the drug war trenches.


On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> So, Mike.  Just how autobiographical is the book?
>
> ;-}
>
> --Doug
>
> On 10/3/06, Michael Agar <magar at anth.umd.edu > wrote:
> Thanks guys. Soon to be featured on remainder tables in a  
> convenience store near you.
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
>
>> 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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