1973; J.B. Lippincott Company publishers, Philadelphia; Book Club Edition; smaller hardbound in red textured boards with black lettering along spine; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket quite good with minimal ageing or wear.
 
Description -
A repressively benevolent bureaucracy, intent on limiting and harnessing the effects of an IQ-boosting drug known as R-47, is thwarted by an underground led by an R-Master, latest of the drug-produced supergeniuses.
 
Our hero's apolitical to start with but his chemically expanded perspective reveals the flaws in his superficial utopia. Energetically suspenseful, though the intriguing premise of an intelligence-enhancing drug might have been more fully developed.