num_pages: 338
description: 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 Driverthe anonymous possibly nonexistent organizer of the world's ultimate secret raceRoy 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 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.
language: English
title: The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
publisher: None