The madcap story of the daring prison escape and run from the law of Dr Timothy Leary, the High Priest of LSD, and gleeful former candidate for California governor against Ronald Regan.
Timothy Leary’s escape was aimed at sparking a revolution and overthrowing the government. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon’s global manhunt for the most dangerous man in America’ wound its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, in one of the trippiest journeys through the heyday of American counterculture.