Follows 'Naked Lunch' and 'The Soft Machine'.
Language is the worn coin pressed silently into my hand. Inspector J Lee of the Nova Police knew them by many names - but he only knew one way to stop them . . . The only weapon was silence: silence to say goodbye - by silence to say good. "You see, gentleman, what we call history is the history of the word - and the word is a killer virus . . ."
A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, 'The Ticket That Exploded' completes the classic trilogy begun by 'Naked Lunch' and continued with 'The Soft Machine'.
