Published: Sep. 09, 2012
Words: 62,783 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301212521

Short description

An indie company is filming Ken Kesey's life story. Oregon location scout Star Stevens stumbles over a dead body and into the embrace of the FBI. She's forced to join their investigation of gangland boss and titty bar owner Oscar Quarry. Narrowly escaping death, she's suddenly living her own movie. Will she be a star? Or the next corpse? And which homicidal Oregonian is racking up the body count?

Extended description

An indie company comes to Oregon to film Acid Test: The Life of Ken Kesey. Eugene location scout Estrella “Star” Stevens stumbles over a dead body and into the crushing embrace of the FBI. She's forced to join their risky investigation of gangland boss and titty bar owner Oscar Quarry. Narrowly escaping death, she's suddenly living her own movie. Will she be a star? Or the next corpse? And which homicidal Oregonian is racking up the body count?

Diana Deverell's tribute to Ken Kesey is a comic mystery evoking a laid-back era, in sharp contrast to a harsh post 9/11 law enforcement approach.
A fellow Oregonian, Diana followed Ken Kesey to Stanford where her creative writing class was NOT the one he visited while on the lam. Those parallels form the basis of a lifelong fascination with the man and his brilliant novels. As a United States Foreign Service officer, Diana served in San Salvador, Warsaw, and Washington DC. She and her husband, a former Captain of the Royal Danish Army, l.. (Read more) An indie company comes to Oregon to film Acid Test: The Life of Ken Kesey. Eugene location scout Estrella “Star” Stevens stumbles over a dead body and into the crushing embrace of the FBI. She's forced to join their risky investigation of gangland boss and titty bar owner Oscar Quarry. Narrowly escaping death, she's suddenly living her own movie. Will she be a star? Or the next corpse? And which homicidal Oregonian is racking up the body count?

Diana Deverell's tribute to Ken Kesey is a comic mystery evoking a laid-back era, in sharp contrast to a harsh post 9/11 law enforcement approach.
A fellow Oregonian, Diana followed Ken Kesey to Stanford where her creative writing class was NOT the one he visited while on the lam. Those parallels form the basis of a lifelong fascination with the man and his brilliant novels. As a United States Foreign Service officer, Diana served in San Salvador, Warsaw, and Washington DC. She and her husband, a former Captain of the Royal Danish Army, live in Denmark.
Diana made her literary debut in 1998 with a series of international thrillers featuring State Department counterterrorist Casey Collins: No Place for an Honest Woman, 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire, and East Past Warsaw. Diana’s basketball-playing FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd began her career in Night on Fire and has made eleven appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Those short stories plus an all-new Dawna adventure are included in Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns.
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Tags

lsd, acid test, eugene oregon, ken kesey, film development, location scout, merry pranksters, drug lab, drug raid

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Review by: Sue Marsh on Oct. 23, 2012 :
What a fun book! Eugenians and Oregonians will recognize places and perhaps themselves in this book. Thanks Diana for writing this!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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