A craze for speed....what will break first, the flesh or the machine? Speed Demon is a super-charged adventure in the high-speed, nerve shattering world of race car drivers... and it's the story of their women, whose passions are aroused as much by the roaring machines as by the men who drive them. Car racing in 1958 is not just a sport for Martin Janis... it's his life. After a series of deadly triumphs melting California asphalt with his speed in a quick-silver, Italian-made car, driving for a wealthy sportsman, Martin accepts a dream offer from an Italian car-maker to race on the man-killing tracks of Europe. The battles Martin has to fight within the legendary car company are almost as dangerous as the curves of the track...and the curves of Anna, a glamorous, beautiful and hot-blooded woman who is using every tool she has to seperate Martin from Charlotte, his home-town love who travels with him from the U.S. His personal and professional challenges come to a fiery climax at the German Grand Prix on the treacherous Nuremburg Ring in an unforgettable, heart-pounding race.
This is one of the most authentic, powerful, and exciting novels ever written about car racing...the first book by Jim Bosworth, author of the epic and enduring western The Long Way North.