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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-and the Arpanet? It's June 1967. On the way to his wedding in Berkeley, a strait-laced computer engineer working on a Defense Department contract picks up a free-spirited hitchhiker. She's carrying five pounds of Afghan hash which she intends to deliver to the Grateful Dead, He's been wrongly identified as a Soviet sympathizer. Within twelve hours of their arrival in San Francisco, the duo encounter a notoriously groovy drug-dealer, lose their car and their money, are targeted for assassination by a hypochondriacal KGB agent, pick up an FBI tail, and are kidnapped…mehr

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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-and the Arpanet? It's June 1967. On the way to his wedding in Berkeley, a strait-laced computer engineer working on a Defense Department contract picks up a free-spirited hitchhiker. She's carrying five pounds of Afghan hash which she intends to deliver to the Grateful Dead, He's been wrongly identified as a Soviet sympathizer. Within twelve hours of their arrival in San Francisco, the duo encounter a notoriously groovy drug-dealer, lose their car and their money, are targeted for assassination by a hypochondriacal KGB agent, pick up an FBI tail, and are kidnapped by an auto thief searching for his runaway daughters. Join Elliot Ames and Morning Star McGovern on a trip down the rabbit-hole that was the Summer of Love.
Autorenporträt
Eric Sean Rawson lives in Pasadena and teaches at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the novel Banana Republic, two poetry collections, and a rhetoric reader, American Subcultures. When he isn't writing or teaching, he dedicates himself to Dodgers baseball, mid-century California art, and street photography.