THE FOOTLOOSE AMERICAN: FOLLOWING THE HUNTER S. THOMPSON TRAIL ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA

It's no secret that one of Barnaby Blacks biggest influences is Hunter S. Thompson. When we read this title we were thrilled to find a writer who truly had a deep running admiration for this legend.   Brian Kevin, the author, was nice enough to sign a few copies his book for us & so we offer a limited few of this awesome book. In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a year long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia.       In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics