"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-power...
Kill the body and the head will die.
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"What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!
"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
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