The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World - Hardcover

Roy, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061227935 ISBN 13: 9780061227936

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

A son of a Cannonball Run participant describes his own entry into the world of semi-legal and illegal underground races, a lifestyle marked by high-stakes competitions with wealthy thrill seekers and the anonymous machinations of a mysterious organizer known only as "The Driver." 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

."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)

."..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)

."..this is more than a testosterone cocktail of a memoir. It's a joy ride..."--Los Angeles Times

..".this is more than a testosterone cocktail of a memoir. It's a joy ride..."--Los Angeles Times

...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)"

..".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)

Synopsis:

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 may exist. Roy must first become a force to be reckoned with.In this riveting story, Roy straps you into his highly modified BMW M5, takes you on a terrifying 120 mph lap of Manhattan, through the exhilaration of a West Coast professional racing school, then tackles the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun the two most infamous road rallies in the world. Full of shocking stories from some of the wildest events in existence, "Driver" offers a never-before-seen account of the fast, furious, unbelievable world that has long been off-limits to all but the international rich and elite.

Filled with insane driving and Roy's quixotic quest to win both for his late father and himself, "Driver" is the tale of one man's insatiable drive beyond life in the fast lane.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061227935
• ISBN 13: 9780061227936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288