From one of the founders of the beat generation and the 1960s counterculture, comes an outstanding novel. 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. William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease, and adventure.