Posted the first 5 chapters of my book about heroin on a publisher's website, where it can be read for free. I'm hoping that this helps get it out into the world. An extract from the book is in a previous blog.
The book is called Glimpses of a Floating World and is at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1848
"It is 1963, and there is growing concern about the spread of heroin addiction in Britain. While scandals like the Profumo and Challenor cases are exposing the dark underbelly of post-war Britain, a teenage heroin and cocaine addict, Ronnie Jarvis, undergoes a cold turkey in prison. We are shown a world of hard drinking and marital violence, and witness the boy's frantic efforts to escape the influence of his father, a senior police officer.
Guilty of a drug offence, Ronnie is offered his freedom by Detective Constable Andrews, if he will work as a police informer. Ronnie agrees, believing he will find a way to con the police with false information. Andrews demands results, and in desperation Ronnie makes up a story about illegal drugs importation. Subsequent police raids appear to be successful, but senior policemen have planted the evidence, for their own purposes. Without knowing that his son is the police informant, his father accepts a bribe from villains who intend to eliminate a 'grass'. It is planned to take Ronnie out with a staged hit-and-run accident. Ronnie's efforts to stay alive bring police operations in the West End into crisis ..."
The book is called Glimpses of a Floating World and is at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1848
"It is 1963, and there is growing concern about the spread of heroin addiction in Britain. While scandals like the Profumo and Challenor cases are exposing the dark underbelly of post-war Britain, a teenage heroin and cocaine addict, Ronnie Jarvis, undergoes a cold turkey in prison. We are shown a world of hard drinking and marital violence, and witness the boy's frantic efforts to escape the influence of his father, a senior police officer.
Guilty of a drug offence, Ronnie is offered his freedom by Detective Constable Andrews, if he will work as a police informer. Ronnie agrees, believing he will find a way to con the police with false information. Andrews demands results, and in desperation Ronnie makes up a story about illegal drugs importation. Subsequent police raids appear to be successful, but senior policemen have planted the evidence, for their own purposes. Without knowing that his son is the police informant, his father accepts a bribe from villains who intend to eliminate a 'grass'. It is planned to take Ronnie out with a staged hit-and-run accident. Ronnie's efforts to stay alive bring police operations in the West End into crisis ..."
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