From getting drunk with the bus-boys in a pizza parlor in New York City on New Year's Eve to running way from the Nebraska law, a crooked boss and debt, in a beat-up Israeli moving-truck to arguing his way through storms, loose women and the Atlantic as a deck hand on a sail-boat to losing sanity and sobriety while working in the bar at one of New ...
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.
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