The paper’s editor is the blustery Lotterman, who rotates stale assignments among the pool while assuring them that the paper has loyal backers and adequate funding. Kemp is amused rather than engaged by Sala’s rants and hangs around him more for the entertainment value than the friendship. First is Sala, a dejected and cynical staff photographer who spends most of his time bemoaning his “degenerate” co-workers if it weren’t for freelance undercover assignments shooting casino interiors, he might have no work at all. A chaotic soup of characters is immediately introduced. Paul Kemp is a wandering journalist who, following stints in New York and London, has managed to land (as Thompson had) in San Juan for the purpose of working at a doomed English-language newspaper, the Daily News.
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