Book : The Driver My Dangerous Pursuit Of Speed And Truth I

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The riveting memoir of a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer.Alex Roys 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 worlds 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 insiders look at an unbelievably fast and dangerous society that has long been off-limits to ordinary mortals. Review “...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) About the Author Alexander Roy has been driving in international road rallies since 2003. He finished first in the 2006 Gumball 3000 and set a new speed record from New York to Los Angeles, making the nearly 3,000-mile drive in a staggering 32 hours and 7 minutes. When he is not on the road, he lives in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The DriverMy Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing WorldBy Alexander RoyHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Copyright © 2008 Alexander RoyAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780061374999Chapter OneThe Divinity of PurposeDecember 1999It was a gorgeous morning, heaps of snow having escaped the streets salting in the wake of the previous nights storm, their knee-high peaks not yet capped with soot from passing cars and trucks.My cell phone rang as I descended the subway station steps at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Bleecker Street, mere seconds before I would have disappeared into the station and out of range for the next half hour.Is this Alexander Roy?There was only one reason for such a call.This is Dr. Johnson at Beth Israel Hospital.The world slowed.As your fathers medical-care proxy, you must give permission for any time-critical procedure during a life-threatening or?.?.?.?Mr. Roy? Mr. Roy, can you hear me?The bus rumbling mere feet away, the cacophony of voices echoing off the subway stations tiled walls just ahead, the deep hot rushing roar of air out of the station entrance as a train pulled in-all were muted by the gravity of events to which I could only react, and never control.Mr. Roy?Ill be there in fifteen minutes.Theres no time. We need your permission to perform an emergency tracheostomy immediately.Or else?Your father will die.October 1999My father was very secretive about his past. While I was a child, the notion of my climbing up his leg to ask a question-to scale the seemingly indomitable mountain that was my father-was terrifying.My father had always described himself as a lion, and so had everyone else. Hed lost everything during the Second World War-his brother, his friends, his childhood home-and fled with his surviving family to New York City. He joined the U.S. Army at seventeen, landed at Normandy, was shot and wounded twice, and rode with the lead units into Buchenwald concentration camp. After the war he started life anew, founded the family business in 1954, met my mother in 1970, had two sons he sent to private school, bought a Cadillac, and earned (and saved) enough for us to live comfortably. Even his enemies-and these were restricted to business competitors-
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