Exterminator!

Note! Exterminator! is a short story collection. Early editions label this book a novel.

Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental novel.

Contents:

• Exterminator!
• The Lemon Kid
• Short Trip Home
• Davy Jones
• The Evening News
• Astronaut's Return
• My Face
• Wind Die. You Die. We Die.
• End of the Line
• The Drums of Death
• Johnny 23
• The Discipline of DE
• The Perfect Servant
• Ali's Smile
• Twilight's Last Gleamings
• The Coming of the Purple Better One
• What Washington? What Orders?
• From Here to Eternity
• The Teacher
• They Do Not Always Remember
• Friends
• Seeing Red
• Old Movie
• Electricals
• SPUT
• Reddies
• The "Priest" They Called Him
• My Legs Señor
• The End
• Cold Lost Marbles