Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security

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Robert Guffey

Chameleo

A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security

Robert Guffey

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OR Books
30 July 2015

Espionage & secret services; Military intelligence; Civil defence; Military engineering

"A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick,Chameleois 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 who'd 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 didn't 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 - and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving ""cloaking""- electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters - by the Department of Homeland Security. Hallucination? Perhaps - except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion's friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed ""Chameleo,"" 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 ofFortean Times Magazine(September 2013)."

By: Robert Guffey
Imprint: OR Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781939293695
ISBN 10: 1939293693
Publication Date: 30 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Guffeyis a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University Long Beach. A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he is the author of a collection of novellas entitledSpies & Saucers(PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction,Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form, was published in 2012. He's written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, among themFortean Times,Mysteries,Nameless Magazine,New Dawn,The New York Review of Science Fiction,Paranoia,The Third Alternative, andVideo Watchdog Magazine.

Reviews for Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security

"""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"