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My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Harper Entertainment
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0061227935
EAN: 9780061227936
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 celebrity-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 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.
The official line is "It's not a race, it's a rally." But
among those
who pay $15,000 to enter -- millionaire playboys, software
moguls, Arab
princes, movie stars, leggy Czech supermodels, gearheads,
and tech
whizzes -- a select few, Alex Roy among them, compete as if
these are
full-on honest-to-god road races. May the best driver
win.
By day, those secretive few ignore rally rules and the law
to race each
other city-to-city on public roads, all the while evading
police and
abiding by an odd code of honor. By night, the drivers and their
entourages struggle against fatigue to attend outrageous
parties with
some of the world's richest and most glamorous people.
Though some drivers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
on exotic
cars and useless cosmetic modifications, Roy utilizes a far
greater
weapon: his brain. Armed with his BMW M5 painted like a
German police
car, with the help of America's most creative techs and BMW
mechanics,
deploying myriad radar detectors, laser jammers, police
scanners, and a
variety of fake uniforms and accents, Roy evades arrest at
almost every
turn, wreaking havoc on his fellow competitors and the
police forces of
the countries around the world.
Full of shocking stories from some of the wildest events in
existence, The 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, The Driver is
the tale of one man's insatiable drive beyond life in the
fast lane.
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