Here is the story of William "Skip" Sands of the CIA, who operates on behalf of Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong, and also the story of the misfortunes that befall him. Here too is the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, who left the Arizona desert to find themselves in a war where the line between misinformation and hallucination is now blurred. The view of human madness in this novel is unique and unparalleled in American literature.

"Reading him we hear Twain and his bitter irony, Whitman and his erotic excess... An amazingly talented writer".
(Vince Passaro, "Newsday")

"Impossible to stop reading... Johnson is a wonderful writer".
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