Congratulate the Devil - Howell Davies

In seven days I shall be killed, but I don’t know yet how it is going to happen. I cannot make up my mind whether to do it myself or to let those soldiers and policemen who surround this village do it for me.

Starling knows a chemist called Roper, who knows a painter called Jourbert, who knows a man in Mexico who works for the government.

Mescal has always had its routes into the world. There has been a new shipment, but not quite what anyone expected. This is a new drug. It opens the doors of perception for a man like Roper hiding away in his north London laboratory. He can make people work for him, turn his friends into fools or murderers, if only he could control his own mind… Anita is such a beautiful woman but she could never love a man like Roper…

Power, pleasure, always corrupt…