Title: The best for last, or nearly
Product review: It is a crying shame that this was almost the last book that Phil Dick ever wrote before his untimely death, but at least he has left us with a ripping yarn that transcends mere genre fiction. Set in a future that was then near and now even nearer, it has taken on particular poignancy now that we know the extent to which the good guys ostensibly running society can also be the bad guys who subvert the very principles on which the society is ostensibly based. Since its publication, we have learned much about administrations who collude in the overseas production of the very narcotics their "War on Drugs" ostensibly would suppress here. While Dick leaves us with a faint hope that the perps will get their come-uppance, "Who guards the guardians?" remains as open a question as ever. A modern classic.
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