An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands, William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.
- ISBN10 0805039554
- ISBN13 9780805039559
- Publish Date 1 March 1995 (first published February 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Edition 2nd Owl Book ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 332
- Language English