ISBN 0-7493-1070-7 (UK pbk)

"One hundred years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Aztechan Revival is in full swing. But the infothugs are taking it all too seriously -- human sacrifice is back in fashion, and cultural rabble-rousing is giving way to outright terrorism.

"Xolotl Zapata, celebrated poet, sceptic and songwriter, is now receiving death threats from a cult he has blasphemously lampooned in one of his comic books.

"But that's not his only problem. A contagious mystery virus is plaguing the capital, opening its victims to religion, all religion, compelling them to chant and touch and pass it on.

"And very soon it's dancing through Xolotl's brain..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1992]

"Ernest Hogan's got something. It might 'just' be a virus. But it's certainly infectious as hell. Watch out!" --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Recommended.