Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Hooked (Narcotics: America's Peril) - Will Oursler and Laurence Dwight Smith

The Brutal Truth About Dope And Crime


POPULAR LIBRARY 528
FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1953
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY 1952 
UNDER THE TITLE NARCOTICS: AMERICA'S PERIL

DOCUMENTARY THRILLER

"This book is a documentary set down with the drama and pace of a thriller. Its villains are drug peddlers at home and abroad, its heroes the Federal agents who wage a ceaseless war against them."
Buffalo NEWS

In boxes labeled "machinery," in secret rooms of ocean liners, in bandages, brassieres and hollow crutches, dope worth millions crosses American borders. School girls prostitute themselves for a "fix," honest men turn gunmen to support "the habit" -while "pushers" prosper in a deadly racket.

Can America survive the international dope conspiracy? Here is the answer in a challenging, courageous book that sounds the battle cry against the underworld.

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