Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)

The second in the Red Night Trilogy, and sort of illuminating, sort of confusing. Definitely not as coherent as Cities of the Red Night, but still better than Naked Lunch in this respect. The character of Kim is introduced, and seems to be a reincarnation of the two main characters from the first book. He is clearly a hero of sorts: the leader of the "Johnsons," the group of decent people who will be called upon to fight the forces of organized religion and the universal tyranny of time. This installment is a Western shoot out extravaganza that transforms into space odyssey and falls apart into poetic chaos: this is what Burroughs does best.