Horseplay

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Publication Year:
2020

ISBN-13: 9781988732992

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles&#10;Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of&#10;Excellence!</b><br><b>Finalist&#10;for Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing&#10;Awards!</b><br><br>In his first true crime memoir, undercover&#10;operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver&#8217;s&#10;heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the&#10;War on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer's seat, Boucher&#10;candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for&#10;their next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotels&#10;on the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher&#8217;s domain as he attempts both to gain&#10;acceptance in a world far removed from his own and to keep himself&#10;safe.</p><p>With <i>Horseplay</i>, decorated RCMP&#10;officer Norm Boucher takes readers back to the assignment that shaped his&#10;outlook on the role of criminal law enforcement and the human side of addiction&#10;as it collides with the ruthlessness of the drug business.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles&#10;Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of&#10;Excellence!</b><br><b>Finalist&#10;for Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing&#10;Awards!</b><br><br>In his first true crime memoir, undercover&#10;operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver&#8217;s&#10;heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the&#10;War on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer's seat, Boucher&#10;candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for&#10;their next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotels&#10;on the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher&#8217;s domain as he attempts both to gain&#10;acceptance in a world far removed from his own and to keep himself&#10;safe.</p><p>With <i>Horseplay</i>, decorated RCMP&#10;officer Norm Boucher takes readers back to the assignment that shaped his&#10;outlook on the role of criminal law enforcement and the human side of addiction&#10;as it collides with the ruthlessness of the drug business.</p>