The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Harper Collins In her search for the

In her search for the truth

Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am

cut off from the urgent hum of cell phones and from the internet

Others race to survive

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Harper Collins In her search for theBegun in 1959 by a twenty two year old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly 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