Synopsis
Ports of Hell tells the story of Jamie Coats, a young man who falls in with Elias, who claims to be from Lemuira. On Elias's instructions, Coates travels to Thailand and Mexico, and later Hawaii and Sri Lanka, acquiring brutal enemies and becoming caught in a struggle that threatens his sanity and life. Conspiracy themes and the picaresque are in play throughout in this novel from the founding member of the seminal US punk band Crime. ""This is what marks the artist, he has been there and brought it back"" - William S. Burroughs
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Review
I sometimes despair of finding good new writers, then along comes someone like Johnny strike. -- Geoff Nicholson, prose editor of Ambit
...these are real maps of real places. That is what marks
the artist, he has been there and brought it back. -- William S. Burroughs
From the Publisher
Ports of Hell features much travelling to impoverished exotic
countries, which will be of interest to the backpacker crowd.
Ports of Hell will be also of interest to fans of the author’s San
Franciscan punk band Crime.
Good press from William Burroughs
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