Anders Engwall wrote:
>
> 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.
HARDBOILED AMERICA -- that's it. You're dead right about the
quote. I wonder how Chaber researched that far out acid
effect. LSD was legal in
'55...
BobT
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