Vegas, the American Dream and a Hell of a lot of Drugs.

"Nobody had learned anything ... all I learned was that the National District Attorneys' Association is about ten years behind the grim truth ... of what they have only just recently learned to call 'the Drug Culture' in this foul year of Our Lord, 1971"

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a fast-paced hybrid of reportage and fiction in which Thompson, aka Raoul Duke, and his attorney drive to Las Vegas to find the dark side of the American Dream.

Drugged up to the eyeballs on a lethal combination of ether, mescaline and alcohol to name a few, the two enter a manic and surreal world.

Whilst on this ‘trip’ they stumble across the district attorney’s drug conference, adding to the many bizarre events written about in this book.

Thompson himself calls Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ‘a vile epitaph for the drug culture of the sixties’ and his ‘reluctant salute to that decade’, which amazingly has a certain resonance even today.

This is reinforced in the constant striking imagery and warped romanticism from the very beginning.

Indeed, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is so unbelievable in the story it tells that you can’t help but believe as you are drawn into this crazy drugs frenzy and the many extreme situations.

A brilliant read and a must for anyone with even the slightest interest in gonzo journalism.