In A SHOT OF MALARIA, Charles Souby unfolds the twisted storyof a young man, Daniel Martin,desperately hooked on heroin,alcohol, and his own delusions. Set in San Francisco in the nineties,and written as deadpan first-person narrative, the novel capturesthe ugly realities of addiction with sharp, ironic humor.A SHOT OF MALARIA has been described as The Catcher in theRye for the turn of the 21st century.