<p><b>Shortlisted for the Brass KnucklesAward for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards ofExcellence!</b><br><b>Finalistfor Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!</b><br><br>In his first true crime memoir, undercoveroperator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver’sheroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and theWar on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer's seat, Bouchercandidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking fortheir next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotelson the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher’s domain as he attempts both to gainacceptance in a world far removed from his own and to keep himselfsafe.</p><p>With <i>Horseplay</i>, decorated RCMPofficer Norm Boucher takes readers back to the assignment that shaped hisoutlook on the role of criminal law enforcement and the human side of addictionas it collides with the ruthlessness of the drug business.</p><p><b>Shortlisted for the Brass KnucklesAward for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards ofExcellence!</b><br><b>Finalistfor Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!</b><br><br>In his first true crime memoir, undercoveroperator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver’sheroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and theWar on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer's seat, Bouchercandidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking fortheir next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotelson the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher’s domain as he attempts both to gainacceptance in a world far removed from his own and to keep himselfsafe.</p><p>With <i>Horseplay</i>, decorated RCMPofficer Norm Boucher takes readers back to the assignment that shaped hisoutlook on the role of criminal law enforcement and the human side of addictionas it collides with the ruthlessness of the drug business.</p>