<p>From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy available in audio for the first time.</p><p>This surreal fable set in America’s Old West features a cast of notorious characters: the Crying Gun who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; the Priest who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and the Nihilistic Kid himself Kim Carsons a homosexual gunslinger who with a succession of beautiful sidekicks sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom.</p><p>Fantastical and humorous <i>The Place of Dead Roads</i> continues Burroughs’ exploration of society’s controlling forces—the state the church women literature drugs—with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.</p>