As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

She was going to, erm... the salon, I think.

I reckon. It's powerful fine to hear that, replied Lassiter, unsteadily.

There was a lifebuoy in the boat with a rope tied to it.