Steven Froelich doesn’t just stumble into trouble: he hunts it down and makes it his constant companion. Guatemala inaugurates the series of Froelich’s travel memoirs, which will include Belize, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Fresh from a Miami drunk tank, Steven lands in Guatemala City. Riotous road trips follow, with our man perpetually wasted on booze and cocaine but fuelled by a passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life. Danger is never far off, but neither are laughs.

With an unapologetically raw, unfiltered and darkly funny voice, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, Guatemala-style – beauty and madness, privilege and privation.