There are many ways to test your manhood. . .
There is raw courage in the face of death.
There is the ability to endure the most harrowing hardship.
And, of course, there is sex.
Walter Florentine was ready and willing to try them all.
He was about to start on . . . The Tour

David Ely's stunning, compulsively gripping journey into a twentieth-century nightmare. The Tour, is a psychological thriller set in a dystopian future where individuals take a hallucinogenic "tour" that transports them to different realities. The protagonist, a man known only as "the tourist" embarks on this tour but soon realizes that he cannot escape from it. A peculiar and messianic "dream-merchant" called Gurgan runs the tour which offers the thrills of night-long bouts of sexual adventure, attacks from hordes of rabid animals, the opportunity to take the occasional shot at marauding Communists, and participation in a live test of the ultimate anti-guerrilla weapon. The Tour is certainly one of the most diabolical novels ever written, and once read, no character or incident in this surprise and suspense filled narrative will ever be forgotten.