The fictional paper is known for its colorful journalists, His narrator, Paul Kemp, leaves New York and the White Horse Tavern behind for a job with The San Juan Daily News, an English-language publication modeled on one that Thompson himself worked for. Duke was only 22 years old, but doesn't say when Thompson put the finishing touches on this piece of juvenilia (perhaps last month?). The publisher says the novel, which is set mainly in Puerto Rico in the late 1950's, Work, and there is also none of the maniacal wit and deranged exuberance that roared through the ''Fear and Loathing'' books. Thompson, if we can go by his first novel, ''The Rum Diary.'' There are no narcotics in this early Rugs must have done wonders for Hunter S. Set in the Caribbean, this first novel by a 22-year-old Hunter Thompson has lots of sex and alcohol but no drugs yet.
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