Drug Testing, Marijuana, Cocaine Books
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Glimpses of a Floating World | 
| Manufacturer: Larry Harrison
Category: EBooks
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Sales Rank: 508597
Format: Kindle Ebook
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 215
ASIN: B003NHSR7A
Publication Date: May 21, 2010
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Product Description
1963, and panic about the spread of heroin addiction in Britain. While the Profumo and Challenor scandals 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 taken into 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 Andrews, a young and ambitious detective at West End Central, 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, Commander Freddy Jarvis 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.
Product Description
1963, and panic about the spread of heroin addiction in Britain. While the Profumo and Challenor scandals 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 taken into 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 Andrews, a young and ambitious detective at West End Central, 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, Commander Freddy Jarvis 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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