Offering a rare glimpse of an elite Southern Californian community of drug dealers, this volume traces the lives of the author's key informants over a 15-year span as they entered, ascended and then quit the drug world. This revised edition reveals the current fate of several of the informants.

Researching Dealers and Smugglers; Smuggling; Upper-level Dealing; Social Organization; The Dealing Lifestyle; Success and Failure; Dealing Careers; Toward an Existential Perspective on Drug Trafficking; Deviant Careers and Reintegration; Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Policy.

"Richard Davis's admirable translation of Ouyang Xiu's Historical Record of the Five Dynasties, makes available in English an invaluable source for the study of both the crucial century of transition between the Tang and Song dynasties and the emergence of the new literati consciousness of the eleventh century." -- Peter Bol, Harvard University "This is a remarkable achievement that will certainly prove valuable for all researchers on late medieval and early modern China." -- Victor H. Mair, editor of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature "Richard Davis's wonderfully fluent translation makes available in English one of the most important histories of the period between the Tang and Song dynasties. In recent years historians have come to realize just how important this fifty years was to China's overall development for many of the innovations that the Song pioneered actually dated to this time. This translation provides entree for anyone interested in this period, whether a starting student or an advanced scholar." -- Valerie Hansen, Yale University