The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way . . . do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other -- that kept me going."

This book is part of a broad comment on the modern tendency to violence. But it is also a book to read for pure entertainment - written with energy and the intensity and excitement of a man who can't slow down. And neither will the reader, as the outlaws sweep past "like a burst of dirty thunder..." - book jacket for Hell's Angels

"Takes the reader inside the most notorious of California's motorcycle gangs, an animal crowd on big wheels ... all noise and hair and bustout raping instinct. In eloquent, forceful detail he describes their machines, runs, codes, argot, origin and recent history, and day-to-day existence ... This is a fascinating book, but not one for the queasy." - Library Journal

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls....But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge...."
from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"A scorching epochal sensation!" - Tom Wolfe

"The best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American polititcal process." - The New York Times Book Review

"Hunter Thompson is the most creatively crazy and vulnerable of the New Journalists. His books are brilliant and honorable and valuable... the literary equivalent of Cubism: all rules are broken." - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Gaze in awe...Hunter Thompson does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity. And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing." - Christopher Lehmann Haupt in The New York Times

"America, with all its warts, lies naked under the laser-like scrutiny of legendary outlaw journalish and brilliant reporter Hunter S. Thompson. Fearlessly, he hurls himself into each assignment, gouges out the truth, then returns with a fresh story no one else on earth could write. From Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, hippies to himself, Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s. Thompson is a rebel and an artist, and we are all richer for it.

"Sprinkled liberally with quotes from Revelation, brimming with tales of depravity and destruction, Generation of Swine is Hunter S. Thompson at his apocolyptic best. What he finds in America is deeply disturbing: as he puts it, "Huge brains, small necks, weak muscles,and fat wallets - these are the dominant physical characteristics of the '80s... the Generation of Swine." Against a backdrop of meandering garbage barges, late night tattoo sessions, and Soldier of Fortune trade shows, Thompson keeps a running tally of the folly of the last decade: puzzling figures such as George Bush, Ed Meese, Gary Hart, and Oliver North; ever-ludicrous international players such as the Marcoses and the Duvaliers; and egregious scandals such as the Iran-Contra affair and the 1988 Presidential race." - jacket of Generation of Swine

In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane. These tales - often sleazy, brutal and crude - are only the tip of what Hollywood mogul Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time."
Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York in the 50s, riding wiht the Hell's Angels in the 60s, investigating Las Vegas sleaze in the 70s, grappling with the Dukakis Problem in the 80s, and finally, in a morbid flashback called "Character is Destiny," leaving little hope for the 90s.
Here, with insight and integrity, brilliance and savagery, the prince of Gonzo journalism charts our long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle. - back cover of Songs of the Doomed

"Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable just-short-of-libel style. In Better Thank Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again - without leaving home - yet manages to deliver a mindbending view of the 1992 presidential campaign - in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast." - back cover of Better Than Sex

Screwjack was published in a limited edition by Neville Books of Santa Barbara in 1991, and was not even registered with the Library of Congress. Screwjack is 38 pages and contains three short stories: "Mescalito" (previously published in Songs of the Doomed as "First Visit with Mescalito"), "Death of a Poet" and "Screwjack". The last is a story about Hunter Thompson's cat.

26 copies were bound in brown leather and numbered A-Z. 300 copies were bound in red cloth and numbered 1-300.

We do not sell this book but you can download each story from our ebooks site.