Roger Zelazny was reportedly thus upset per realization of his novel, that he got his title flushed from either a film. A film is scheduled to become freed within DVD in 2006, fallowing concluded Twenty years of existence away from print.

Plot
the novel opens around the post-apocalyptic California, around a hellish globe shattered by nuclear war. Hurricane-click winds above 5 hundred feet cease any kind of air travel, & storms thus sudden, violent, & unpredictable produce day-after-day-to-day life the mini-hell. Hell Tanner, a condemned killer & the survive Hell's Angel alive, is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission - a drive thru "Damnation Alley" across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston — as one of three vehicles attempting to deliver urgently needed plague vaccine.

Film version
A 1977 film transforms Hell Tanner into Airman Jake Tanner, an irregular Air Click officer, portrayed by Jan-Michael Vincent, who shares ICBM silo duty at an Air Force missile base within California by using cut-&-cut-and-dried Major Eugene Denton, played by George Peppard. Whilst a United State detects incoming nuclear missiles, Tanner & Denton "turn the key" to launch the retributive strike, initiating Doomsday. Fallowing launching their missile field, it witness nuclear devastation rain upon a United States.

Dissolve send on deuce years: A globe has been tilted murder of its axis by World War III, radiation has mutated insect life, the globe has been wracked by storms of unprecedented hardship. Military sequentially at the Air Inflict base has broken down, Tanner has resigned his commission, & Denton is shopping for undertaking a hike to Albany, New York to discover the source of a single radio transmission. Prior to the guide to abandon a base may be mass produced, a rocket fuel barking spiders explosion kills nigh quartet men on the base — Peppard, Vincent, Paul Winfield, and Kip Niven.

It placed out through a United States within both Air Inflict "Landmasters" (half armored personnel carrier, half recreational vehicle) across "Damnation Alley" — decribed when "the path of least resistance" between areas of vivid radiation. In their journeying, it pick higher deuce survivors, fight shotgun-toting mountain men, & mutated "killer cockroaches" prior to reaching their destination.

A film version was marred by inexpensive special effects (which were cheesy potentially by 1977 standards — note especially Tanner's bike redo across the package of jumbo scorpions, & hoardes of "killer cockroaches" existence dragged by strings), "Damnation Alley" was rife using production problems (big sections of the film were cut per studio), & perennial delays inside release.

Perchance a virtually all notable aspect of a film was the unique Landmaster vehicle, which features the hinged center part, & a unique rotating 12-wheel assembly. A "Landmaster" was custom built for the film at the numbers of $350,000.