<p>From one of the founders of the beat generation and the 1960s counterculture comes this opening novel of a series available now in audio for the first time.</p><p>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 <i>The Place of Dead Roads</i> and <i>The Western Lands</i> William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex drugs disease and adventure.</p>