Title: A Shadow of Hunter
Product review: Somehow, I expected this book by Hunter to be edgier than it is. The cover certainly gives the impression (with HST, drink in hand, giving the finger, smoking a cigarette in an elevator with a No Smoking sign above him) that we are really gonna be in for a hell of a ride. The book disappoints.However, I did find his reflections on the day after 9/11 to be quite interesting. Even prophetic. And his trip to Cuba sort of fizzles; we never get to read how the trip ends. Or what his impressions were. Or who he got to meet. This could have really been illuminating---but Hunter just drops the trip. Stops writing about it. Provides no clarity into what his impressions of Cuba were forty years after the revolution.It seems that his lifestyle had taken a toll on his ability to write a coherent book. Compare this to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail---and you find this book to just be a shadow of the man who so aptly described the McGovern campaign.
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