[1] While at Life, he covered the JFK assassination and was the first writer to locate Lee Harvey Oswald's home and wife.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, in which he revealed the group's extensive drug use; an in-depth look at Frank Sinatra and his alleged Mafia ties; and the 40th and 50th birthdays of Elizabeth Taylor.
(1975), was his account of the true story of two men and one woman who were lost at sea after a storm in the Pacific.
Ann Kurth, John Hill's second wife, sued Thompson for his description of her as a "sex bomb".
[7] Robinson had been allowed to read the book prior to its publication, and initially said he approved of what Thompson had written about him.
[1] Thompson's family believed that the liver disease that caused his death was contracted in the Far East while investigating the Charles Sobhraj saga.