Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels Hell s Angels, that is in this short work of nonfiction.
California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.
Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson s vivid account of his experiences with California s most...

This cult classic of gonzo journalism is thebest chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page.It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro."

Reissue of a novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.

The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption.

Shows how the author build his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

The sultry classic of a journalist's sordid life in Puerto Rico

Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky. Before there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson -- the military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering sports for his Florida base's newspaper. Before there was Fear and Loathing, there was Dow Jones -- that is, Thompson's early reportage for that company's National Observer, which raised the standard for hip and provocative foreign coverage. Before there was Rolling Stone, there were job applications everywhere -- in...

A carefully selected volume of rare (and in some cases never-before-published) conversations with the iconic writer, thinker, and rabble-rouser Hunter S. Thompson

More than a decade after his death, Hunter S. Thompson is as popular--and as relevant--as ever. Vigorously political, he both anticipated the situation in Washington now and here, in a collection that ranges from an early conversation with Studs Terkel, to a decade-long exchange with editor David Streitfeld, to his last public interview (no longer available online), his prescience is both exhilarating and profound.

Na počátku šedesátých let byl Hunter S. Thompson, tou dobou novinář v San Franciscu, fascinován motorkářským klubem Hells Angels. Jeho článek o těchto pánech silnic vyvolává senzaci, takže se autor rozhodl pustit do delší verze: rok stráví ježděním a psaním vedle nich. Dobrodružství však končí divoce: protože se odmítne podělit o své honoráře, andělé opustí literáta na silnici, polomrtvého a s rozbitou hlavou... Kniha vás stáhne do podsvětí klubu, jehož jméno má mezi všemi motorkářskými gangy Kalifornie ten nejhorší zvuk. Thompson...