In 19 39, paul madden was appointed to run the california bureau of narcotic enforcement. He was the man responsible for stopping the use of illegal drugs in California. Madden was a progressive who believed that government could fix things.
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.
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