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Paperback. The breakneck story of a wild breed of men - and their thrill-hungry women. The tearing shriek of metal against metal, the stink of gasoline fumes, the sweat of men working all night in the pit, and the cheap perfume of the girls who hang around the track looking for kicks . . . this is the souped-up world of the stock-car racer. This is also the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown attuned to the battered iron heaps that are his whole life - and of a girl named Sandy, who sees in him the same fever that burned out her husband, the same wild streak that made her love him. Ace is running from his wild past when he comes across Town, a run-down spot in the middle of nowhere with a racetrack of its very own. Can Ace make an honest life for himself in Town, or will he crash and burn, taking Sandy with him? Originally published under the pseudonym Angus Vicker, this is Felsen's first rodding novel for adults. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Fever Heat (Paperback)
- Author
- Henry Gregor Felsen
- Publisher
- Octane Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1642341339
- ISBN 13
- 9781642341331
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
The breakneck story of a wild breed of men—and their thrill-hungry women. The tearing shriek of metal against metal, the stink of gasoline fumes, the sweat of men working all night in the pit, and the cheap perfume of the girls who hang around the track looking for kicks . . . this is the souped-up world of the stock-car racer.
This is also the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown attuned to the battered iron heaps that are his whole life—and of a girl named Sandy, who sees in him the same fever that burned out her husband, the same wild streak that made her love him. Ace is running from his wild past when he comes across Town, a run-down spot in the middle of nowhere with a racetrack of its very own. Can Ace make an honest life for himself in Town, or will he crash and burn, taking Sandy with him?
Originally published under the pseudonym Angus Vicker, this is Felsen’s first rodding novel for adults.
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About the Author
After struggling financially during the Depression, Felsen sold nine books and hundreds of stories in his first eighteen months of full-time freelance writing in the early 1940s. After war service with the Marine Corps, during which he edited the Corps magazine Leatherneck and wrote magazine articles while stationed in the Pacific, he returned to Iowa where he lived for most of the rest of his life.
His best-selling book was Hot Rod, one of a rodding series that also included Street Rod and Crash Club and sold about eight million copies in all. He wrote about 60 books, many of them moralistically exploring the evils of drugs, sexism, and racism.
Felsen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from high school in 1933 and attended the University of Iowa for two years before dropping out due to financial difficulties. He found work in the Federal Writers Project, producing articles for Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State in 1936.
In 1937, he met and married Marie Penny Vincent from West Des Moines, Iowa, but the couple struggled through the remainder of the Depression. His wife found a position with Look Magazine, which was published in Des Moines, while he worked off and on for the Works Progress Administration, tried opening a fencing studio (which failed), and eventually became a full-time writer.
In 1940, Felsen started writing detective stories with Darrell Huff (an editor at Look Magazine). He then became a staff writer for David C. Cook Publishing Co. Shortly after that he published his first book, Jungle Highway. He quit that job after eight months to freelance in New York and over the course of the next eighteen months, he wrote and sold nine books and hundreds of stories.
A member of the Marine Corps for two and a half years during World War II, Felsen was stationed in the Pacific theater and wrote for Leatherneck magazine. He returned to Iowa in 1946 and remained there most of his life
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