Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brought Thompson wide public attention in 1971.

In 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas placed Thompson at the centre of literary and cultural attention. The book’s journey through the American West became more than a chaotic travel story: it became a savage examination of the broken promises of 1960s counterculture and the polished machinery of mass tourism. Thompson’s wild narrator is both witness and suspect, chasing the American Dream while showing its strange, glittering underside.