Whoa! Wait, what? Donna is an undercover cop as well? I know that revealing the identities to each other helps them fit in more, but sometimes it seems that it would benefit the situation.
Basically the rest of the novel follows Arctor as he becomes addicted to Substance D without realizing it. We start to see that the two hemispheres of his brain begin to function independently. Soon Arctor's superiors find this out and deem him incapable of performing his job as an undercover narcotics agent. Donna ends up taking him to a rehabilitation clinic called "New-Path" where he becomes "Bruce". This is when we find out about Donna and how she is supposed to infiltrate New-Path to find the source of funding. Poor Arctor becomes a pawn in her job and was unknowingly selected to find out what he can about New-Path. The treatment of the patients there is just deplorable! They are forced to take part in group games which are brutal and are strictly meant to break people's wills. Arctor/Bruce is suffering from withdrawals from Substance D, but he still manages to discover some rows of blue flowers hidden between rows of corn. These flowers he recognizes as the main source in creating Substance D. He hides one in his shoe so that he can pass it to his "friends".
I actually really feel sorry for Fred/Arctor. He was deceived through the whole novel by everyone. His roommate Barris was poisoning him and their other roommate. His superiors told him that they were installing security on Arctor (to them they only knew him as Fred), when it was really to watch Barris. Donna was an undercover narcotics agent as well. Barris was deceiving both his roommates. How many times did Arctor feel betrayed by the people he lived with, loved, and worked with? Although being addicted to a drug that messed with his mind, maybe he just came to accept it as part of the job and not clearly seeing it as betrayal.
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