Bloomsbury, New York, 2002, 1^st US ed/pr.  ISBN 1-58234-224-5.  Hard cover, 341 pages.  Very good; black boards with silver lettering on spine; spine ends lightly bumped with tiny tears at lower end; binding sound with a very slight lean.  Dust jacket with price intact shows very light edge and cover wear with some rubs and light creases.  Book interior clean and unmarked; black end papers and blue ribbon marker bound in; author’s first novel.  ‘Imagine a drug that made your brain function with prefect efficiency, tapping into your deepest resources of creativity and drive, releasing all the passive knowledge you’d ever accumulated.  Imagine a drug that focused you so intensely you could read a stack of books in just a few hours and remember every word, learn a foreign language in the space of a quiet evening at home.  Imagine a drug that allowed you to process information so quickly you could see patterns in the stock market, a drug that made you so charming you could seduce a room full of strangers in a matter of minutes, or land any job you wanted.  Eddie Spinola is on such a drug.  It’s called MDT-48, and it’s success in a bottle – a designer drug that’s re-designing his life. … But as he morphs into the picture of intellectual and financial success on the outside, he starts falling apart on the inside – headaches, blackouts, violent outbursts.  But now it’s too late to go back; he’s hooked, and the supply that once seemed limitless is starting to dwindle.’ (from front flap)