{"product_id":"haight-st-a-crime-novel-9781733100700","title":"Haight St: A Crime Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's over ten years since James Stone finished his stint in Bakersfield, California as a homicide detective and landed in the music business, where his golden ear serves him well. In 1967 Capital Records dispatches him to San Francisco, a hotbed of drug-inspired musical originality - and a breeding ground for the unspeakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso exploring new business opportunities here is The King, a national-level drug trader keen to break into psychedelics. He has a flair for recruiting new talent, providing financing, and dealing imaginatively with competitors like acid kingpin Superspade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Stone searches for breakout talent, a face from the past shows up at the Free Clinic where his doctor girlfriend, Christine, volunteers. Rhonda, tough and street-smart, is no longer the waif he rescued from a den of perverts and put on a bus out of Bakersfield ten years ago. She's in trouble again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhonda is linked up with Larry, an up-and-coming acid dealer financed by The King. She stumbles on the gruesome aftermath of a clash between Larry and LSD-riddled Speedo, a brain-damaged ex-stockcar racer lethally obsessed with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, hiding among the hippies is an angry battle-haunted Vietnam vet with explosive skills, just waiting for his moment. Ex-cop Stone is again entangled in murder, madness and mayhem. As the Summer of Love turns into a hallucinogenic nightmare, lives are on the line over $50,000 in missing drug money. Its transcendental fate ultimately becomes the stuff of supreme irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorvik Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733100700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.63d","brand":"Pierre Ouellette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38022005293237,"sku":"9781733100700","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f81dfba1-fac1-43c4-99b5-173e836efb7a.jpg?v=1609180241","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/haight-st-a-crime-novel-9781733100700","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}