In This Funny, Nightmarish Masterpiece of Imaginative Excess, Grotesque Characters Engage in Acts of Violent One-Upmanship, Boundless Riches Mangle a Corner of Africa Into a Bacchanalian Utopia, and Technology, Flesh and Violence Fuse With and Undo Each Other. a Fragmentary, Freewheeling Novel, It Sees Wild Boys Engage in Vigorous, Ritualistic Sex and Drug Taking, As Well As Pranksterish Guerrilla Warfare and Open Combat With a Confused and Outmatched Army. "The Wild Boys" Shows Why Burroughs is a Writer Unlike Any Other, Able to Make Captivating the Explicit and Horrific.