The Place of Dead Roads

by William S. Burroughs

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Cities of the Red Night Trilogy (2)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312278659, Paperback)

A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western Lands.

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