The Drifters is the name of a novel by author James A. Michener. It was published by Fawcett Books in 1986. It is about six runaway teens who have carved for themselves a world based on illegal drugs and pleasure, and their travels around the world.
The Drifters - The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953.
Continental Drifters - The Continental Drifters was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991 and dissolved in New Orleans, Louisiana about a decade later.
The Drifters (novel) - The Drifters is a novel by James A. Michener; published by Random House in 1971.
In this comic novel, a group of people witness their employer, Leo Runciter, get killed in an accident, and subsequently believe that he is communicating to them from beyond the grave.
The novel is colored by the manic and paranoid political atmosphere of California during the Nixon years, and in many ways serves as an elaborate counter-culture response to Watergate.
The novel gave Dick the chance to reflect upon the pain, sadness and religious pleasure of death, perhaps as a form of therapy after a decade of watching several close friends die.