Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. Hunter S Thompson is a cult figure to generations of readers, all of whom will welcome this reissue of a modern classic Fear and Loathing... was made into a hugely successful film by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp. This paved the way for new readers to discover the novel. Competition: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Terry Southern, Tom Wolfe, Hubert Selby Jr

Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas...' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.