Substance D-otherwise known as Death-destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorientation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage.
It is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market, and undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor is trying to find the source of the supply, in this 1977 novel that inspired the animated 2006 film of the same name.
Arctor finally has a lead; now he only has to monitor and entrap suspected drug dealer .
Bob Arctor.
A visionary, Hugo Award-winning author, Philip K.
Dick was inducted posthumously into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
His stories have been made into other such blockbuster films as Total Recall and Minority Report, in addition to A Scanner Darkly, and he was the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America series.
Sf Masterworks: a scanner darkly
