Chasing Dragons (PDF)

"e;No one seemed to care anymore that people like them were being abandoned to their fate amid the destruction of their homes and families while those charged with supporting and protecting them seemed to be totally uninterested in their plight. What was going on? They just couldn't keep letting it go on like this, could they? Parents and children with nothing to look forward to but havoc and mayhem while elsewhere the people responsible partied on regardless? Surely someone, somewhere would do something."e; CHASING DRAGONS is a novel set in Dublin back in the mid Nineteen Eighties when, had the authorities acted with more diligence, they might have nipped thewhole drugs culture in the bud. Certainly it might not have taken hold as quickly as it did had they not looked on it as something that could be contained in certain urban communities and then ignored.CHASING DRAGONS is a fictional account of how one such inner city Dublin community of that time was affected. Symbolized by its tragic heroes and heroines, the story touches all bases as it charts the disintegration of the community. Thus we see the unscrupulous dealers, the desperate addicts, the despairing families, the uncaring authorities and the nefarious elements within the community all engaged in a bitter, seemingly never ending struggle of life and death.