Truth is as Deadly as Fiction

Vermont?s bucolic image is shattered in Archer Mayor?s novel, Gatekeeper. It?s about the heroin trade in the Green Mountains and the horrors that go along with it. Archer Mayor did a lot of research for the book. He?s also an assistant medical examiner for the state of Vermont as well as an EMT for the Brattleboro area. Both have brought him face to face with the consequences of Vermont?s heroin troubles. Archer talks about the war on drugs, some of the things he?s seen, and what?s ahead.

Archer Mayor's newest book, The Surrogate Thief has just been awarded the 2004 Book Award for Fiction by New England Booksellers Association.