In 1980, Hunter S. Thompson received a proposal from an unknown magazine, called Running, to cover the Honolulu Marathon, with a good salary and all expenses paid. Thinking about a quiet vacation in Hawaii, he accepts and extends the invitation to his friend, the cartoonist Ralph Steadman, who will be accompanied by his family. But what was to be a journey of pleasure and rest, mixed with a little work, becomes a delirious adventure from the moment the writer board the plane that will take him to his destination. With his characteristic style, which made him the father of a journalistic genre - gonzo journalism - the author takes care of everything that involves one of the oldest and most difficult sports jousting. But it goes much further, managing to write a masterful story about a place where most of its inhabitants seem to be crazy. And madness almost always comes from some god, in this case Lono, "the god of excess and abundance," who actually seems to be behind the terrible storms and the abundant waves that lash the island during the passage of the American writer by It, and in which it is completely immersed, both in the real plane as in the mental plane. In a constant set of reflections with the story of Captain Cook, a British conqueror who was once considered by the natives to be Lono's incarnation, Thompson closes the metamorphic cycle of delirium by assuming his visit to Hawaii as a second advent of the legendary god, And proclaim with shout and with total self-confidence: "I am Lono!" This book is, then, the story of that mysterious and hilarious transformation.