<DIV><p>"<B>Dope Menace</B> boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time, in all their seductive and transgressive glory."--<I>Tucson Weekly</I></p> <p>While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality.</p> <p><I>Dope Menace </I>collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs&rsquo; <I>Junkie </I>to the spaced-out psychedelic &rsquo;60s. We mustn&rsquo;t forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the &rsquo;70s, when anything was everything.</p> <p>Author <B>Stephen J. Gertz </B>is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House&rsquo;s <I>Sin-A-Rama</I>, an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties.</p> <p><B>Annie Nocenti</B>, longtime editor of <I>High Times </I>magazine, offers an informative foreword.</p></DIV>