The Lions Club Chapter Summaries

The novel represents the community of the drug users in Anaheim, California and the operations taken by the undercover agents to fight with the problem of addiction. The story begins from the perspective of Jerry Fabin, a drug addict, who is certain that he is contaminated with biting bugs. Jerry comes to the conclusion that the biting bugs are aphids which not only infected him, but also his dog and all his belongings. Charles Freck visits Jerry in his apartment and helps him collect the aphids to the jar. Charles Freck leaves Jerry’s apartment and parks ahead of the mall in which he notices Bob Arctor’s girlfriend Donna, a drug dealer. He decides to follow Donna and buy Substance D from her. Donna claims that she will have Substance D, also

called Death, in stock tomorrow. Later on, they discuss the affairs of Jerry Fabin who was taken to the federal clinic, because of his hallucinations caused by his drug addiction. The bugs were only figment of his imagination and the jars, in which he supposedly collected the bugs, were empty.
The conference of Anaheim Lions Club is taking place in the County of Orange.

The undercover narcotics agents are assigned to make speeches about the dangers of the drugs. This time around, an undercover agent Fred is giving the speech. What is unknown to the others present in the room is the fact that Fred is Bob Arctor wearing a “scramble suit” – a suit that hides the real identity of a person, showing one to the others as a blur. Fred is expected to give prepared beforehand speech, but he departs from the subject and tries to justify the actions of the addicts claiming that the best option to fight with drug addiction is to kill the drug dealers. After giving the controversial speech, Bob is ordered to go to the Room 430 of the Orange County Civil Center, but he decides not to go there immediately. He calls Donna to ask her for more supplies of Substance D and she informs him that his cephalochromoscope, a device used by him during his leisure time, had been

destroyed.
Charles Freck meets in the coffee shop with Jim Barris. His friend Jim, who is also Bob’s roommate, describes his plan to produce cocaine in large quantities in his household and sell them to other druggies. He suggests that selling cocaine would help Charles to seduce Donna who is a crack addict ready to do anything to get a fix. Barris plans to write a book about how to produce dope legally in peoples’ own houses. Meanwhile, Bob Arctor visits the New-Path rehab center in order to find the drug dealer who had supposedly been admitted there. He pretends in front of the staff of New-Path that he wants to get off the drugs, but the staff is extremely rude and heavily insults him. Bob hurriedly leaves the center and drops the idea to find the dealer.
Fred has a meeting with his superior, Hank whom he gives a full account of the actions performed by his drug-addicted friends.

Both agents are in disguise, so Hank does not realize that he is discussing all the matters with Bob Arctor in the flesh. The agent tells Fred that he had received anonymous calls informing about strange Bob’s behavior. Hank plans to install a set of holographic equipment in Arctor’s house and asks Fred to observe and report on himself. After the meeting, Bob goes back home and reminisce the times when he was married and had two daughters. One day, he hit a corner of a cabinet in the kitchen and realized that he was unhappy, so he left his family behind. He admits that he have never regretted his decision, because his previous life was really boring and

plain.
Along with his roommates, Bob goes to San Diego to rent a cephalochromoscope. He wants to give an opportunity to the police department to set up the holoscanners in his house while they are all gone. Arctor bails on Luckman and Barris and visits Kimberly Hawkins who lives with her abusive boyfriend Dan Manchuria. The huge fight explodes someone between the couple in which Dan slashes the tires of Kim’s car and threatens to kill her. Bob and Kimberly pound on the elderly couple’s door in order to use their phone and call the police. The elderly couple is not interested in Kimberly’s tragic situation and only complains that when they leave the house every single day, they step into the dog shit. The police finally show up, but they do not help the girl. Bob is disappointed and ordered by Kim to leave her house. The roommates finally drive back home, but the car’s gas pedal stops working and they almost crash. After examining the car, they realize that