In The Ticket That Exploded, Willian S. Burroughs's grand "cut-up" trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientises and combat troops, of as men and con men whose deceitful languages has spread like an incurable disease be at once so frightening and so enthralling.
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