The Rum Diary

Book info: The Rum Diary (Hardcover, 204 pages – Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1998) – Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1998. Language: Eng.

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Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.