Wild Boys, or the Book of the Dead, the first novel in the London trilogy, which also includes The Exterminator and Saints' Landing, tells the story of a group of teenage marauders who terrorize the cities of North Africa. In Burroughs's grotesque, romantic, nightmarish masterpiece, technology, flesh and violence interpenetrate each other, merging in an orgy of mutual destruction. This work inspired Duran Duran's famous song of the same name from the album Arena. The book contains strong language