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The riveting memoir of a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer.

Alex Roy's father, while on his deathbed, hints about the notorious, utterly illegal cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York of the 1970s, which then inspired his young son to enter the mysterious world of underground road rallies. Tantalized by the legend of the Driver--the anonymous, possibly nonexistent organizer of the world's ultimate secret race--Roy set out to become a force to be reckoned with. At speeds approaching 200 mph, he sped from London to Morocco, from Budapest to Rome, from San Francisco to Miami, in his highly modified BMW M5, culminating in a new record for the infamous Los Angeles to New York run: 32:07.

Sexy, funny, and shocking, The Driver is a never-before-told insider's look at an unbelievably fast and dangerous society that has long been off-limits to ordinary mortals.

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Paperback. Pub Date: October 2008 Pages: 336 Publisher: It Books The tire-smoking high-speed true account of Alex Roy's rise from loyal son and average 30-something New Yorker to international outlaw rally driver - from the world of celeity-filled rallies and wickedly good parties to his quest to discover the biggest secret in the illegal racing world. On his deathbed. Alex Roy's father reveals a secret history of the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s. the utterly illegal high-speed non -stop races from New York to LA that featured a field of wealthy international participants.Inspired by his father's dying words. Roy enters the high-octane world of semi-legal road rallies and illegal underground races-trying both to find himself in a mysterious and hazardous world. and to locate The Driver - the anonymous organizer of the world's ultimate illegal race. neither of which ...
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"...this is more than a testosterone cocktail of a memoir. It's a joy ride..."--Los Angeles Times

"...highly entertaining insider's look at the world of high-stakes, high-octane, high-risk road rallies.... Roy writes with enthusiasm and with a novelist's sense of pacing and character. The book is so good, so filled with color and adrenaline, that it plays out like a movie in your mind."--Booklist (starred review)

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