Journalist maverick rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels beautifully repackaged as
part of the Penguin Essentials range. '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. It was a trip destined
to make Hell's Angels household names across America infamous for their violent drunken
rampages and feared for the destruction left in their wake. Enter Hunter S. Thompson the
master of counter-culture journalism who alone had the ability and stature to ride with the
Angels on their terms. In this brilliant and hair-raising expose he journeys with the last
outlaws of the American frontier. A mixture of journalism story-telling and sheer bravado
Hell's Angels is Hunter S. Thompson at full throttle. 'Excellent documentary non-fiction' Time
Out 'The maverick voice of American counterculture' Guardian 'There are only two adjectives
writers care about any more - "brilliant" and "outrageous" - and Hunter has a freehold on both
of them' Tom Wolfe 'The book that made Thompson's name' Loaded Hunter S. Thompson was born
in Louisville Kentucky in 1937. He began his writing career as a sports columnist in Florida
and went on to work on newspapers and magazines in New York San Juan and Rio de Janeiro. His
articles appeared in Esquire Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle . He is
the author of a number of books including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear and Loathing on
the Campaign Trail '72 The Great Shark Hunt Generation of Swine The Curse of Lono Songs of
the Doomed Better Than Sex The Proud Highway and The Rum Diary . Hunter S. Thompson died in
2005.
