<p><em>&quot;Since I&rsquo;ve gone this far, I&rsquo;ll go a bit further and make the paradoxical admission that even us Deathlanders don&rsquo;t really understand our urge to murder. Oh, we have our rationalizations of it, just like everyone has of his ruling passion&mdash;we call ourselves junkmen, scavengers, gangrene surgeons; we sometimes believe we&rsquo;re doing the person we kill the ultimate kindness, yes and get slobbery tearful about it afterwards; we sometimes tell ourselves we&rsquo;ve finally found and are rubbing out the one man or woman who was responsible for everything; we talk, mostly to ourselves, about the aesthetics of homicide; we occasionally admit, but only each to himself alone, that we&rsquo;re just plain nuts.&quot;</em></p><p>Two hardened loners, survivors of a violent cataclysm that has wiped out America as we know it, meet in a desolate wasteland.<br />
One random, brutal act of violence throws them into an unexpected encounter with the remnants of advanced civilization, a wandering murderous philosopher and with the ghosts of their own pasts, as this post apocalyptic western veers into an exploration of the human impulses for violence and redemption.<br />
This science fiction classic feels timeless, as important and thought-provoking today as it was when it first appeared in print over 50 years ago.&nbsp;<br />
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A Vertvolta Press Rediscovery Edition</p>