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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S.Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. 

Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear is the wild and outrageous autobiography from the world's most notorious journalist. It's an unrestrained and uncensored account of fast living, hard drinking, sharp writing and unimaginable drug taking; of road trips, girls, guns, bikes and being accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson. Kingdom of Fear is both personal and political; an explosive life story and...

'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west . . .  the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'

In September, 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey, California...

'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill form the west . . . the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over.   Even knowing the Angles I could quite handle what I was seeing.   It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'

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High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for...

'I was drunk, crazed and heavily armed at all times . . .'

Be Afraid. Hunter S. Thompson – hellraising author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , high priest of hedonism and supreme chronicler of the American nightmare – tells the uncensored story of a life dedicated to excess in this outrageous autobiography.

Here, for the first time, the godfather of Gonzo journalism takes on the subject...

With 'long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips . . . and Harley's flashing chrome', the Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with...