Paul arrives early and sees the couple swimming in the nude. Yeamon invites Paul to visit him and Chenault at their home in the country. Paul is told not to get too comfortable in his new job as the paper might fold at any time. The paper is run with little oversight and always seems to be under financial pressure. In spite of the awkward situation, Paul becomes friends with Yeamon and several other colleagues at the paper, who warn him about the paper’s editor, a paranoid and ineffectual boss whom the employees do not respect. Several other reporters from the paper are there, including Yeamon, a dangerous and sinister man, who is dating Chenault, the beautiful woman Paul saw on the plane. Richard takes Paul to a local restaurant where they drink and have dinner. There, he meets the newspaper’s photographer, Richard Sala. Eventually, he goes to the offices of his new paper, The San Juan Daily News, instead.
After arriving in San Juan, Paul looks for someplace to eat dinner, but none of the restaurants appeals to him. 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.
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