Bob Judd's debut novel, Formula One, took us behind the scenes of the glamorous and dangerous world of professional race-car driving and behind the wheel of some of its most powerful machines. Now, the author who brought us that "absorbing, tingling story" (The New York Times) is back with The Race, a thriller as clever and action-packed as the last one.At the opening of The Race, Forrest Evers, the dashing, cultured hero of Formula One, has just won the Grand Prix of Monaco. His c...

Bob Judd can write . . . an absorbing, tingling story'—New York TimesJUICE is soon to be a blockbuster movie of the year, directed by and starring the sexiest, most bankable star on the planet, the luscious Samantha Miles.Champion racing driver Forrest Evers, looking for ways to raise cash, finds himself replacing the stunt driver killed in a mysterious accident on the first day of filming. And when the male lead storms off the set, Evers is the not so obvious choice to rep...

"Monza is a fine thriller, with Judd's lovely style allied to a hauntingly sad story—and a perfectly orchestrated showdownn" —AutosportMONZAA THRILLER OF FORMULA ONE RACING, LOVE, HONOR AND MURDERIn the hills north of Milan is a small Italian town that once a year fills to the brim with auto mechanics, team managers and world-class race-car drivers all maneuvering for pole position. The town is Monza — Bob Judd's exciting new thriller.The national pastime in...

Dynamite burns like a high speed cigar, a disc of fire moving in a plane through the cylinder of powder at a little under seven thousand miles an hour...Bill Barnes, an investigative reporter, is dynamited on the streets of Phoenix. Forrest Evers knew him.The former racing driver first came back to Arizona on assignment - the Phoenix Grand Prix. Then to find the ranch his mother willed to him before her death. The ranch he's never seen. But instead of a welcome, Evers walke...

Bob Judd has done it again. What a great story! What an ingenious plot! He gets the high powered, high risk world of international motor racing exactly right...down to the last detail. Read it!'—MURRAY WALKERINDY is unusual. It's a powerful thriller, with the sensations and the champagne glamour of 230 mph race cars, a multi million dollar financial scam, sexy sex and rock and roll.But Bob Judd, the author of FORMULA ONE, also raises new and larger themes about power. About...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-rate salvager of stolen boats. Now Billy Ingraham, a self-made tycoon, is betting that McGee can locate his $700,000 custom cruiser. McGee isn’t so sure. He knows all too well the dangerous link between Florida boatjackings and the...

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A. Storms -- who has stopped keeping up with his meds -- is still looking for a briefcase stuffed with five million dollars...and is now capable of wreaking more havoc than hurr...

One man. One bike. A whole lotta trouble. MEET SLIM. He bought his first motorcycle, a Bridgestone 175 cc, at age sixteen in 1968. Since then, he's been in and out of trouble (mainly in) and experienced the thrills and perils of riding on the highway. He's been a guest inside some of Australia's toughest jails where he learned a lifetime's worth of human behaviour and handy life skills, such as how not to do an armed hold-up. Never one to shy from a punch or retreat from a fight, Slim is a...

" Funny, elegiac . . . a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world." —NPROne of the Best Books of the Year—Amazon, Golf Digest , Minnesota Public RadioThis is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive...

Welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida — where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned! Get five Dorsey novels full of murder and mayhem all set in the wacky world of Florida in one e-book, including: Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, and The Stingray Shuffle. Mystery fans are in for a wild ride along with Dorsey's favorite character, the lovable serial killer and Floridaphile Serge A. Storms.

“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity FairMore than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the p...

It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were provided by the British government. The first car rolled off the line during the appalling hunger strikes of 1981.The prime mover and central character of this intelligent, witty and moving novel was John DeLorean, brilliant engineer, charis...