Tornado Pratt

This extremely American novel, albeit by an English author, presents a Yankee tycoon’s explosive career paralleling the boom-and-bust Twentieth Century. By the author of the I Hear Voices and other novels, it was published originally in 1977. The eponymous main character is not likely to win kudos for political correctness, since his story is something of a fictional cross between Hunter Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke. This purportedly autobiographical narrative express train leaps out as one of the premier novels told in first-person deranged.