Goa FreaksMy Hippie Years in India Author:Cleo Odzer In this lively and unique document of 1970s style hedonism, we follow the further adventures of Cleo Odzer, whose first book, Patpong Sisters, was a QPB best seller. Goa Freaks begins in the mid-1970s and tells of Cleo's love affair with Goa, a resort in India where the Freaks (hippies) of the world converge to partake in a heady bohemian lifest... more »yle. To finance their astounding appetites for cocaine, heroin,and hashish, the Freaks spend each monsoon seasons as drug couriers, and soon Cleo is running her own "scams" in Canada, Australia and the United States. (She even gets her Aunt Sadie in on the action.) With her earnings she builds a veritable palace by the beach-the only Goa house with running water and a flushing toilet. Cleo becomes the hostess of Anjuna Beach,holding days long poker games and movie nights and, as her money begins to run out, transforming the house into a for-profit drug den. Tracing Cleo' s love affairs, her stint hiding out at the asthma of the infamous Bhagwan Rajneesh, and her sometimes-harrowing drug experiences, Goa Freaks:My Hippie Years in India is candid and compelling, bringing to life the spirit of a now lost era.« less