Hunter S. Thompson

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

by Hunter S. Thompson

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...

Death of a Poet

by Hunter S. Thompson

With savage wit, Thompson chronicles a doomed rendezvous in a Green Bay trailer park. The Packers have lost, and the author's friend -- "a bad drinker and a junkie for mass hysteria" -- has come unhinged. "Welcome...

Mescalito

by Hunter S. Thompson

Suggesting the nascent ideas and energy of his seminal book on the 60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Mescalito" features Duke's first mescaline trip. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters,"...

Screwjack: A Short Story

by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson’s most searing and unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting.

Never before—and perhaps never since—has modern man’s melancholia...

Better Than Sex

by Hunter S. Thompson

"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."

--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing...

Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

by Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley & William J. Kennedy

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman...

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

by Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back...

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

by Hunter S. Thompson

Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Hunter...

The Rum Diary: A Novel

by Hunter S. Thompson

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...

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

by Hunter S. Thompson & Jann Wenner

The definitive collection of the king of gonzo journalism’s finest work for ROLLING STONE “Buy the ticket, take the ride,” was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his...

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S

by Hunter S. Thompson

SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS, PROVING THAT THE GOOD DOCTOR IS IN -- AND AS INSIGHTFUL AND INCENDIARY AS EVER.

For decades, Hunter S. Thompson has galvanized...

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

by Hunter S. Thompson

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book...

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

by Hunter S. Thompson

Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking -- in his journalism, in his life, and under the law -- changed the shape of American letters, and the face of American...

Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

by Hunter S. Thompson

Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling "Gonzo Papers," was first published in 1988 and is now back in print.

Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo...

Songs of the Doomed

by Hunter S. Thompson

First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in...