Spikies

The novel opens with the claim that every drug user eventually becomes a dirty bomb, and that the people supplying them are only hurrying the process along. It then follows a young man slipping into a world of drug-fuelled madness, where lethal narcotics keep young party-goers under control and manipulating people's minds is treated as a routine part of the work.

Elijah Caulfield is a croupier nearing thirty who is unhappy with his job and struggling in his relationship. He gets pulled into a police operation determined to strangle the local drug supply. The officers' methods and motives turn out to be less clean than they appear.

When the daughter of a crime boss is killed as a result of the operation, Elijah and his superiors must face the violent fallout. This is a dark crime story in which the situation grows steadily worse.