Paul Theroux has written more than two dozen novels, including The Mosquito Coast, Kowloon Tong, and most recently, Hotel Honolulu. His acclaimed travel writing includes The Old Patagonian Express, The Happy Isles of Oceania, and Dark Star Safari. In Theroux's new novel, Blinding Light, author Slade Steadman sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle, with a rare blindness-causing hallucinogen and his-soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, in search of a cure for his writer's block.