PAPERBACK NOW OUT OF PRINT.� AVAILABLE FOR KINDLE. Portland, Oregon, 1997 � Back in the 60s he tuned in, turned on, and dropped out into a life without deadlines or documentation. But now the aging flower child known as Paladin has run up against reality. � High-tech thugs with guns want a package he didn't deliver, cops like him for the murder of a low-rent attorney, and the attorney's secretary wants to jump his bones--or bury them. And what about the band of misfits and miscreants he calls his friends? Can he trust them? Or will they sell him out? � The man who once followed the Grateful Dead will be grateful to be alive IF he makes it through THE HARD KARMA SHUFFLE.