Uncorrected proof of Theroux’s 1986 novel published simultanesouly on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s New Year in paranoid, computer-rich New York, and a group of Owners has jet-rotored out to party in O-Zone. New York is a sealed city. Visits to the eerie, radioactive wasteland of O-Zone are now rarer than moon landings. The people dumped there, ‘aliens’, officially do not exist. For Hooper Allbright and Fizzy, Theroux’s futuristic Robinson Crusoes, the trip sets in motion an adventure of undreamed-of desire and terror.