Came across this book in a second-hand bookshop, and was so intrigued by the concept I immediately bought it against budgetary concerns (who needs to eat when you can read a great book that feeds the mind, heh heh). Well, I was not disappointed, read it in one sitting, and have to applaud this first novel from Alan Glynn (now of course I have to read all his other books too). In a world currently obsessed by information, collecting information, data mining and analysis of that information, Glynn provides the perfect better-living-through-chemistry solution. A contemporary Brave New World that's not without it darker side too, but ultimately also about the evolution of humankind that has so often in the past also been driven by ingestion of mind-expanding substances.