Wisdom's Maw, Todd Brendan Fahey, Far Gone Books, 1996
Think of the 1960's as CIA mind control experiment. Part of this novel is about a man named Franklin, noticed by the government as a future student leader, who is kept supplied with LSD and other drugs by his girlfriend, an undercover FBI agent. Among the guests at his commune/hippie pad are Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Hunter Thompson, also well supplied with drugs. The book also looks inside Project MK-ULTRA, a government project to spread drugs throughout America; various military and government officials occasionally sample the wares. Along the way, a high-class black prostitute is filmed by the FBI for possible future blackmail against her customers, like the Supreme Court Chief Justice. President Kennedy also makes an appearance in this novel, having a late-night rendezvous outside the White House.
This is a really good, and really strange, first novel. It's a fine one for people who like their fiction a little weird, but still grounded in plausible reality.
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