In the Novel Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone, John Converse bought and stored heroin on his friends Merchant Ship. John was a journalist in the Post-Vietnam era, he realized that the American soldiers would get addicted to heroin, so he planed on smuggling some into the U.S, using his wife as a dealer and Ray Hicks, the Merchant Ship Sailor, to smuggle pass U.S customs.
John pays Mr. Hicks to give it directly to John’s wife on arrival in Los Angeles.
Mr. Hicks makes it through to the land but quickly discovers he is being followed. Mr. Hicks thinks about two scenarios of why they could be following him, John had been double-crossed by his suppliers or if John betrayed him to get him caught. Marge, addicted to painkillers, is John’s wife and she sells the drugs once in L.A.
I’m not going to ruin the end for you but I hope this gives you a clue about the book.
1 comment:
THis does give your readers a clue, Chris, but only a clue. I wish that this review had been a little more comprehensive (had, for example, spoken more directly to the way in which the novel is written, offered background on Stone's own career as a writer, or given a more thorough accounting of your own experience of reading the novel). That said, I'm glad you got this in. Well done!
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