Ports of Hell tells the story of Jamie Coates, a young man who falls in with Elias who claims to be from Lemuria. On Elias' instructions, Coates travels to Thailand and Mexico, and later Hawaii and Sri Lanka, acquiring brutal enemies and caught in a struggle that threatens his sanity and life. Conspiracy themes and the picaresque are in play throughout. A writer first and foremost, Johnny Strike is a founding member of the seminal punk band Crime. "Just got around to reading the pages you sent and was agreeably -surprised . . . these are real maps of real places."-William Burroughs