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- February 22, 2005
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Byline: Paul D. Colford
Feb. 22--Hunter S. Thompson was famous for excesses that would have crippled or at least slowed most writers.
But the "thrilling if frightening man of action," as friend and journalist Timothy Ferris called him, still managed to produce a large body of best-sellers before his suicide on Sunday, and more books are yet to come.
Simon & Schuster lists eight titles on SimonSays.com released since 1999 -- from "The Rum Diary," a belatedly published novel, to last year's "Hey Rube," subtitled "Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness."
Random House has five of Thompson's earlier books, ...