ISBN 0-586-07104-0 (UK pbk)

"Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about the Voodoo beliefs that persisted in the Louisiana bayou country -- like how to create zombies by injecting corpses with the dirt from old slave graveyards.

"The eyes of the awoken dead blazed with a brilliant green luminosity, and before they burned out, strange visions and superhuman abilities tormented them.

"The poet Harrison didn't want to remain a guinea pig. He wanted to find out the truth behind the scientists' sinister manipulations -- and he wanted to stay alive.

"But when he escaped and began to test his growing powers on the superstitious Cajun swamp dwellers, another terrifying world began to unfold before his green eyes..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1987]

"Not the easiest book to read. Lucius Shepard improved tremendously with his subsequent novels. Check out Life During Wartime ." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).