Strap down for a roller coaster of a journey as Simon Mayle recounts his trip--with his accomplice, Lenny--from New York to Rio's Carnival in a 1973 Cadillac hearse--15,000 miles of war zones, beautiful women, corrupt cops, narco-gansters, Marxist guerrillas, cheap cocaine, and bad food. It's the anti-travelogue of the year!
Love and life had let him down, so with the fine company of Wilson Heston McGray (who wanted to unload a stolen Warhol in Bogota), Simon Mayle drove through Latin America to Rio. The journey took three months and three days, and this is a colourful account of drugs, driving, dealing and being a bit mad and a bit young.
Here is the first collection of adventures and disasters of a man only interested in work if it went nowhere. Whilst most aspired to a career, affluence, a mortgage and security, the author spent most of these important formative years drifting from job to job in the vague hope of the rent, a pay cheque, a good time and no responsibility. From ...
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