Bob Toomey:
> Don't know much about Chaber, but a factoid rises
from the murk: I read
> somewhere he was the first fiction writer to use LSD
as a major plot
> device, in a 1955 novel called THE SPLINTERED MAN. I
haven't read the
> book, but I've seen a reprint of the pb cover
somewhere. It shows a guy
> in his skivvies being held by a couple of heavies
while another heavy
> comes at him with a nasty looking hypodermic
needle.
Ah, yes. It seems you saw it in HARDBOILED AMERICA by
Geoffrey O'Brien. The guy in the skivvies is a CIA agent, the
two heavies holding him are East German prison guards and the
guy with the needle is a scientist who's into LSD
experiments. O'Brien also quotes a segment from the novel
where the CIA guy describes the effects of the drug, and it's
all hilarious acid head babble that could have been straight
outta the summer of love. Sounds like an interesting
read.
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