Gonzo Girl

Inspired by the authors experiences working with Hunter S. Thompson, an exhilarating, full-speed-ahead roman clef about an ambitious young writer who takes a job as an assistant to an unmotivated, drug-addled literary icon and helps him finish his long-awaited novelby any means necessary.Alley Russo is a recent Ivy League grad desperately trying to make it in New York publishing. She has no connections, even less money, and slings drinks at a Bleecker Street dive bar while slogging through an unpaid internship at Beat magazine. Its there that she hears that the infamous Walker Reade is looking for an assistantafter eight others have recently come and goneto help him finish his next novel. Hungry for a chance to transcend her working-class roots, not to mention score an experienced editors eyes on the manuscript shes poured her heart into, Alley takes the job.After surviving an absurd three-day trial period involving a .44 magnum, purple-pyramid acid, violent verbal outbursts, brushes with fame and the law, a bevy of peacocks, and a whole lot of cocaine, shes invited to stay. Over the ensuing months, as Alley attempts to coax the novel out of Walker one long page at a time, the endless procrastinating, vampiric schedule, Herculean substance abuse, Walkers mounting debt, and his casual gunplay will exact a toll on Alleys psyche. By the time she fully grasps the reality of her situationthat shes alone in the Colorado Rockies at the mercy of a drug-addicted icon whose literary powers are waningher fate may already be sealed.