
Chameleo
A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security
By: Robert Guffey
Paperback | 23 April 2015
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A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine whoâd stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base.
Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didnât seem to bother the military. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny â" and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving âcloakingââ" electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters â" by the Department of Homeland Security. Hallucination? Perhaps â" except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dionâs friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed âChameleo,â experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens.
A condensed version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times Magazine (September 2013).
Industry Reviews
"By turns exuberant, resourceful, hilarious, dubious, and emotionally affecting, Chameleo thrives on the contact high of the possible, much like the twin arts of paranoia and conspiracy, from which it takes its manic energy....by many miles the weirdest and funniest book of 2015." -Flavorwire
"Guffey is my kind of crazy. He understands that the universe is preposterous, life is improbable, and chaos rules: get used to it." -Pat Cadigan, author of Mindplayers
"Robert Guffey's writing has impressed, entertained, and enlightened me pretty much since I first met him, as one of my Clarion West students. My suggestion? If he wrote it, read it." -Jack Womack, author of Random Acts of Senseless Violence
ISBN: 9781939293695
ISBN-10: 1939293693
Published: 23rd April 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 284
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: OR Books
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.63
Weight (kg): 0.31
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