Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy,
ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM - a miserable and dangerous place ruled for
thirty years by Harry Sam, a former used car salesman who wields his
power from his bathroom throne. In a land of a thousand contradictions
peopled by cops and beatniks, black nationalists and white liberals, the
crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leads a rebellion against the corrupt Sam in a
wildly uproarious and scathing satire, earning the author the right to
be dubbed "the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark
Twain" (The Nation).