![]() ![]() However, they quickly frighten him with their erratic behavior and he leaps out of the convertible. On the way to Vegas, the two men pick up a young hitchhiker. The men have amassed a huge stockpile of drugs in the trunk of their rental car, including ether, amyls, cocaine, pills, LSD, and marijuana. He has brought his attorney (and friend) along for the weekend. ![]() Duke explains that he is a journalist who has been contracted by a magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas. Both he and his passenger (who is also his attorney) have taken a large amount of drugs and are just starting to feel the effects. The narrator, Raoul Duke, is driving a bright red convertible. The novel begins somewhere near Barstow, one hundred miles southwest of Las Vegas.
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