Awards

• Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2012 (UK)

Overview

To Live Outside the Law is the first insider account of the LSD conspiracy ended by Operation Julie, Britain's biggest drug bust. The book opens with Leaf Fielding's arrest in a pre-dawn police raid and ends five years later with his release from jail. The narrative moves back and forth between the harsh world of prison and his previous life - the early death of his mother, through a testing time at a brutal boarding school, onto undergraduate days and his LSD epiphany in the summer of love, 1967. Acid transformed him in an instant from nerdy scholar to footloose freak. His ten years of adventures in the hippie underground gave the title to this book - a quote from a Bob Dylan song - they also took him across Europe, to the Andes, to Indochina and on to the edge of the known universe. They also led inexorably to his downfall.

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'This book is f***ing good....As bold and innovative as its author, To Live Outside the Law takes the reader on a breath-taking guided tour of academic acid absorption, hitch-hiking hells, emotional whirlwinds, years in the slammer, and colossal amounts of dope'-Howard Marks, Mr Nice'Fielding has encapsulated an era - the transgression, the crime, the clothes, the music, the makeshift drug labs.' -Guardian

'This book is f***ing good....As bold and innovative as its author, To Live Outside the Law takes the reader on a breath-taking guided tour of academic acid absorption, hitch-hiking hells, emotional whirlwinds, years in the slammer, and colossal amounts of dope'-Howard Marks, Mr Nice 'Fielding has encapsulated an era - the transgression, the crime, the clothes, the music, the makeshift drug labs.' -Guardian

<br>'This book is f***ing good....As bold and innovative as its author, To Live Outside the Law takes the reader on a breath-taking guided tour of academic acid absorption, hitch-hiking hells, emotional whirlwinds, years in the slammer, and colossal amounts of dope'-Howard Marks, Mr Nice<br><br>'Fielding has encapsulated an era - the transgression, the crime, the clothes, the music, the makeshift drug labs.' -Guardian<br>

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Twenty-eight years after his release from prison Leaf Fielding has been a teacher in Spain and a philanthropist, setting up a home for orphans in Malawi. He now sells organic produce in the region of the south of France where he lives.

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