Raymond Mungo

"He was looking for one woman. And Sheryl Hancock was not it. But when the lovely blonde with the phenomenal memory fell across his path, U.S. marshal Harry MacMillan knew that he just had to have her. For professional reasons only, of course. Sheryl was this close to announcing her engagement to a nice steady guy when she was thrown together with dashing Harry. He claimed the twenty-four-hour-a-day togetherness was for her own good, but that gleam in his eyes had Sheryl wondering where the real danger lay: outside his arms--or in them"--Page 2 of cover.

Through Mungo's specific experiences the reader can get the general feel for left-wing America in the 1960's and 1970's. He graduated from college during the first Nixon administration and was instrumental in the operation of a syndicate called Liberation News Service. When an organizational split in that group occurred, Mungo's faction lit out for Vermont and participated in a back-to-the-land movement that was one expression of what was then called The Revolution. The book among other things offers probably the best pot bust story in print even at this late date. The tile comes from a line in Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row".