The Rum Diary: A Novel

Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule, and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books.

• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
• The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Papers, Volume 1)
• Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
• Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
• Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
• The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist