A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Category: Classic

Narrator: Paul Giamatti

Tags: Classic, Sci-Fi

A bleak, uncompromisingly intense dive in the drug subculture of southern California in the then future of the late 1990s., Inaudible TrueDecrypt (64Kbps stereo AAC), 1977, 2006, ~9h. Includes ebook., Blurb: Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the lethally addictive Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesnt just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses. In this award-winning novel, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dicks industrial-g