The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Papers, Volume 1)

The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.

Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style.

Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s.

• Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• The Rum Diary: A Novel
• Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Songs of the Doomed
• Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (Gonzo Papers, vol. 4)
• Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
• The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)