The Lions Club Chapter Summaries

The novel represents the community of the drug users in Anaheim, California and the operations taken by the undercover agents to fight with the problem of addiction. The story begins from the perspective of Jerry Fabin, a drug addict, who is certain that he is contaminated with biting bugs. Jerry comes to the conclusion that the biting bugs are aphids which not only infected him, but also his dog and all his belongings. Charles Freck visits Jerry in his apartment and helps him collect the aphids to the jar. Charles Freck leaves Jerry’s apartment and parks ahead of the mall in which he notices Bob Arctor’s girlfriend Donna, a drug dealer. He decides to follow Donna and buy Substance D from her. Donna claims that she will have Substance D, also

The undercover narcotics agents are assigned to make speeches about the dangers of the drugs. This time around, an undercover agent Fred is giving the speech. What is unknown to the others present in the room is the fact that Fred is Bob Arctor wearing a “scramble suit” – a suit that hides the real identity of a person, showing one to the others as a blur. Fred is expected to give prepared beforehand speech, but he departs from the subject and tries to justify the actions of the addicts claiming that the best option to fight with drug addiction is to kill the drug dealers. After giving the controversial speech, Bob is ordered to go to the Room 430 of the Orange County Civil Center, but he decides not to go there immediately. He calls Donna to ask her for more supplies of Substance D and she informs him that his cephalochromoscope, a device used by him during his leisure time, had been

Both agents are in disguise, so Hank does not realize that he is discussing all the matters with Bob Arctor in the flesh. The agent tells Fred that he had received anonymous calls informing about strange Bob’s behavior. Hank plans to install a set of holographic equipment in Arctor’s house and asks Fred to observe and report on himself. After the meeting, Bob goes back home and reminisce the times when he was married and had two daughters. One day, he hit a corner of a cabinet in the kitchen and realized that he was unhappy, so he left his family behind. He admits that he have never regretted his decision, because his previous life was really boring and