The release date for the English version of 'The Rum Diary' by
Hunter S. Thompson is Nov 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Rum Diary, which was started in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, is a complex tale of love entwined with betrayal, desire, and violence set in the late 1950s Caribbean boomtown of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The story's narrator, freelance writer Paul Kemp, finds himself pulled into an enigmatic and seductive lady and soon finds himself in a world where plans to become wealthy fast and corruption are the norm, and everything is acceptable, including murder.