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There's a great history book Season Of The Witch about 60s-80s San Francisco that gets into government infiltration of the counterculture, including the Black Panthers. And then there's the novel A Brief History Of Seven Killings about the assassination attempt on Bob Marley.

So hard to separate fact from fiction with this stuff... I'm with /u/BeachStoop in being v skeptical about conspiracy theories. Like yeah, that Dopey guest was so far out there - seems like it's a coping mechanism about the insecurity of not being totally in control.

See also: Hanlon's Razor - sometimes people aren't evil, they're just stupid.

I've got 4 or 5 if you're interested, but they all have to do with addiction and endurance sports. I'd start with Out There by David Clark

>Growing up in the hardest of circumstances, poor, homeless and traveling the country in his father’s pickup truck, David Clark was no stranger to the hard knocks of life. Yet, without the benefit of any formal education in his early years, he lifted himself all the way up to owning a chain of 13 retail stores by the time he was 29 years old—only to lose it all to addiction, poor choices, and tough economic breaks. In the aftermath, David started spiraling toward death, spending years eating recklessly, drinking and drugging himself—and growing farther and farther away from everyone around him. One day the thought occurred to him, “If I don’t change today, I will die.” David went on to completely redefine himself, his values and his very way of looking at life. He lost over 150 pounds and kept it off—not only that, but he went on to compete in some of the toughest endurance events in the world.

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