

Paul gets into an altercation with the man, and the girl leaves in disgust. He attempts to entice the woman to sit next to him on the plane, but an old man takes the seat Paul had been saving for her. Paul gets drunk before getting on the plane to Puerto Rico as he boards, he notices a beautiful woman with whom he wants to talk. Looking for something new, he moves to San Juan, Puerto Rico and gets a job at a paper there.

The main character of the novel, Paul Kemp, is a journalist in New York City who longs for adventure and excitement.

In 2011, the novel was made into a movie starring Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, and Giovanni Ribisi. Thompson was written in 1960, but not published until 1998 when the manuscript was found among Thompson’s papers by Johnny Depp.
