Made into a significant film starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary-a country wide bestseller and New York Times Notable Book-is Hunter S. Thompson’s excellent love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 with a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Journal is certainly a brilliantly tangled like tale of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the past due 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, strange woman, is quickly thrust into a globe where corruption and get-rich-quick plans guideline, and anything (including murder) can be permissible. Exuberant and mad, vibrant and dynamic, this stunning comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books.