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Books > History > British & Irish history
Forget Breaking Bad, this is the extraordinary story of the 1970s
Welsh LSD ring that supplied the world, told by a cop in deepest
cover on the case. Life undercover was one great adrenaline rush
fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol, hash, weed and some cocaine.
I was off the leash. In the mid-1970s, at the age of 29, Stephen
Bentley, a fresh-faced detective, turned himself into Steve
Jackson, a dope-smoking, hard-drinking hippie. His time spent
undercover with a gang making and distributing LSD helped bring
down two criminal networks - but the operation also led to deep
personal aftershocks felt long after the case closed. As we get
up-close-and-personal with the people who were the operators of the
drug supply chain that fuelled 70s counter-culture, the story
becomes laden with heavy drug-taking, blurred lines between cop,
criminal and friend, and creeping doubts about who Steve really is.
Taking us into the unlikely setting of the rural Welsh valleys and
infiltrating the gang that was responsible for about 90% of the LSD
production in the UK, Steve Bentley's insider account shows what it
really takes to go undercover - to befriend, to betray and to bury
your sense of self. Now in development as an 8-part TV series.
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