On October 11 thetelevision star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewerseagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not ahas-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audiencebut all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal stateof Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms withloss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of hisdisappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. DickUnited States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identitycards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, aworld in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleaklybeautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stickof dynamite at its center.