Author(s): William S. Burroughs

Literature

The diabolical Nova Criminals now include the nightmarish characters of Sammy the Butcher, Iron Claws, Izzy the Push and the Brown Artist, and are poised to wreak untold destruction on the world with their new-found control. Only Inspector Lee of the Nova Police has any chance of stopping them, by dismantling the word and image machine before it's too late. The third book of Burroughs' linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following "The Soft Machine" and "The Ticket That Exploded" - "Nova Express" is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.