Haight St: A Crime Novel

Its 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.Also 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.As 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. Shes in trouble again.Rhonda 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.Meanwhile 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 $50000 in missing drug money. Its transcendental fate ultimately becomes the stuff of supreme irony.