Fear & Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S. Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor & friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. They show how Thompson's Rolling Stone writing, when taken as a whole, forms an extended, allusive autobiography of the writer himself as he pursues his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of the American Dream. ...

' We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive.. .' Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers & assorted Middle Americans. This stylish reissue of Hunter S. Thompson's iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour & nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson's musings on the collapse of the American Dream. ...

In 1971, journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) & his companion Dr Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) arrive in Las Vegas, ostensibly so Raoul can cover the Mint 400 off-track race. The duo embark on a massive drugs binge, checking into the Mint hotel before visitin ...

One click & you're dead. FEARdot COM is a high-tech, stylish horror thriller, starring Stephen Dorff (Blade, Backbeat), Natascha Mc Elhone (The Truman Show, Solaris) & Stephen Rea (The End Of The Affair, The Crying Game). A series of bloody, strangely s ...

Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, & an equally troubled personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated house with only an assortment of animals, including her loyal spaniel Hepzie, for company. With the summer lushness of the Cotswolds turned ice grey, Thea spends her first few days exploring the beautiful hamlet of Hampnett, meeting some of the locals. But then the weather turns extreme & so do events. When she stumbles across a man lying dead in a snow-covered field, Thea finds herself once again at the heart of a mystery... ...

Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock & his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephines novel, A Shilling for Candles, & Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained
- & expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoods leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, as fear & suspicion take over in a setting where nothing
- & no one
- is quite what it seems, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved. Several years later, another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the shocking truth.


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His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich. Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend
- a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence.
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Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear.
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Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness
- where he will be the prey.

He's not on the job, but

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Books Crime Books The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series. Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness
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