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THE PRINTED WORD JASON PETER: HERO OF THE UNDERGROUND

By Chris Sprow

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

This is a nasty book. We have to be honest. When the protagonist begins his tale in a crack-induced paranoia about whether his girlfriend may leap from a building, and if she does, how to extricate himself from the situation, it's just a start to the compelling brutality of the prose. It's nasty. And well worth the read. Jason Peter can discuss drugs the way Neil Armstrong can describe a lunar landing. It's as though his experience is unique. It isn't of course, which makes the fact that ...

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