Louise’s Drugs Trail from The City Lights to the Starry Rainforest
Kelvinbridge. An affluent district in Glasgow’s west end, above her humble origins. 
Kelvinbridge. This is Louise’s stompin’ grounds during her teens and early twenties. 
Bogota. Louise was lured to the suppliers of south America but she is horrified and endangered by the cartels of Colombia. She is driven by jeep, and walks for days barefoot and alone in search of an isolated tribe descended from the Aztecs. 
Aquibarraquesta. A settlement in the Amazonian rainforest whose chief is a shaman. His knowledge of mind-altering drugs far exceeds western pharmacology. There she meets Patrice who seeks active ingredients on behalf of Benzene Pharmaceuticals of the Netherlands. 
Bronze impression of La Malinche by French sculptress Mariamne St. Claire for which Louise sat. Currently in the Jardín Xicoténcatl, Mexico. Photo by Javier Delgado Rosas is in the public domain.
THE SEQUELS
THE CASE OF THE MISSING CIVET CAT
England’s iconic detective is hired to expose the cover-up of Wuhan, Washington, and WHO. Was the pandemic the result of a lab leak, a lethal design, or a natural disaster? After Louise travels with the Drugs Diva to Shanghai, she knows too much for her safety and becomes a missing person.
THE RETURN OF THE LLAMAS
Twenty years pass until Holmes finds Louise in the rainforest, dedicated to restore the sustainable low-tech empire of the Aztecs. Overwhelmed by a desire to settle, conform and obey, she takes her vows in an abbey in central Scotland, expecting no trouble.
THE AMERICAN DREAM
After the Russian invasion of the Ukraine the CIA persuades Louise to resume its controversial 1960s program of mind control and psychic powers. They think she can leave her body and manifest behind enemy lines. Waking up in a hospital she thanks the police for guarding her until she learns they are there to restrain her.
FOR HER
Is Jesus dead? Define death. Is Sherlock Holmes fictional? Define reality. This is the legacy manuscript of Louise, the privileged glimpse of the Biosphere, dedicated to her daughter. Plotted but not written
Further reading
For further reading you may like to consult these sources.
ACID DREAMS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LSD, THE CIA, AND BEYOND
by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain (1985) Grove Weidenfeld, NY
POISONER IN CHIEF, SIDNEY GOTTLIEB AND THE CIA SEARCH FOR MIND CONTROL
By Stephen Kinzer (2019) St Martins Griffin
SPILLOVER, ANIMAL INFECTIONS AND THE NEXT HUMAN PANDEMIC
by David Quammen (2013) Vintage. The publication date is not a misprint.
A PLANET OF VIRUSES by Carl Zimmer, (2011; 3rd edition 2021) The University of Chicago Press
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES by Peter Wohlleben (2017) William Collins
THE COSMIC SERPENT by Jeremy Narby (1998) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
MURDER IN THE RAINFOREST by Jan Rocha, (1999) The Latin American Bureau
THE ANCIENT SUN KINGDOMS OF THE AMERICAS by Victor W. von Hagen (1962) Thames and Hudson.
Crime and SciFi books of Sherlock Holmes and G.E. Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle (various editions).
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