Bob Arctor is losing himself. A junkie and small-time dealer of the hallucinogenic Substance D, he’s already skating the edge of ruin. But Bob is also Fred, a government agent ordered to bring Bob down. The problem? Neither man knows the other exists.
Substance D doesn’t just blur reality, it splits it. Bob’s paranoia deepens as his fractured selves spiral out of control, hunted by suspicious bosses above and betrayed friends below. In this future America, addiction is epidemic, surveillance is constant, and identity itself is the ultimate casualty.
Caustic, haunting, and darkly funny, Philip K. Dick’s masterpiece is both dystopian thriller and autobiographical confession—a descent into madness where lawman and criminal share the same face, and neither can survive intact.
