Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas!' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.

作者簡介

亨特•S. 湯普森（Hunter S. Thompson），美國著名記者、作傢，具有廣泛影響力的政治評論傢，美國“新新聞”代錶人物，《滾石》頭牌作傢，也是其中最傳奇的一位。

一生寫作無數，主要作品包括《朗姆酒日記》《地獄天使》《懼恨拉斯維加斯》《獵鯊記》《 爽過性愛》《恐懼王國》和《無望者之歌》等等，是美國六七十年代亞文化的重要推動者，作品中有多部被改編成電影。

2005年2月20日，湯普森在傢中吞槍自殺，根據遺願，他的骨灰被放入禮炮中打嚮夜空。

譯者簡介

經雷，曾任中國電影齣版社外國編輯室編輯，現為紐約時報中文網翻譯編輯。