# 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
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-570-2
- Published: 2012-09-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.