# Cities of the Red Night

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- Book: [Cities of the Red Night](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs/cities-of-the-red-night) ([Cities of the Red Night.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs/cities-of-the-red-night.md))
- Authors: [William S. Burroughs](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-993-2
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2010-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.