Lifeboat Foundation

A Scanner Darkly.
by Philip K. Dick.
Read by Gary Telles.
Originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1994
I guess I’ll come back on Thursday.
This is a pretty good alternative to Paul Giamatti’s narration.
“In a near-future, drug-ridden America, narcotics agent Bob Arctor goes undercover to catch a drug dealer. In the junkie culture in which he operates (even his girlfriend is a dealer), he takes large doses of a drug that splits his brain into two separate personalities. The agent has no knowledge of his other self, who, as it turns out, is the drug dealer he is after.“
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