![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I remember saying something like, ‘I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive …’ And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats.” The book opens: “‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Thompson, the self-styled “gonzo journalist”, was covering “the fabulous Mint 400” motorbike race for “a fashionable sporting magazine in New York”.Īs well as a huge red Chevy convertible that he dubs “the Great Red Shark”, he has spent his cash on “two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers … and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls”. Running to 176 pages, Little’s adaptation will faithfully trace the adventures of Thompson, under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, and his Samoan attorney Dr Gonzo, on their “Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream” in Las Vegas. A page from Troy Hill’s graphic novelisation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ![]()
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