Closing Speed - Softcover

Ted West

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978956346 ISBN 13: 9780978956349

Publisher: Demontreville Press, inc., 2010

Synopsis

It was the fastest, most competitive European endurance-racing season ever Ferrari, Porsche, Alfa Romeo, Matra all battling wheel to wheel for the 1970 World Manufacturer s Championship, and young American journalist Nick Thorne was there to cover it... But when one spring afternoon he sprinted across a rain-slick German test track to rescue the World Champion from a fiery wreck, he was thrust into racing s red-hot center. Suddenly on intimate terms with the drivers, their wives and lovers, the secrets he came upon were vastly more than he bargained for, as race by race the championship rose to its desperate climax. From England s rain-drenched Brands Hatch to sunny Monza in Italy, Sicily s gritty Targa Florio to glamorous Monaco and the horrifying speeds of Belgium s Spa-Francorchamps, Nick learned to trust only one truth In the violence of all-out competition, there are no innocent bystanders.

About this title

About the Author

Ted West wrote his first racing story a duel in the rain between a D Jaguar and a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR in Seventh Grade. He got an A. Road & Track published his first two professional stories before he graduated from college. In 1970, Road & Track sent him to Europe for three months to cover the World Manufacturer s Championship wars between the immortal Ferrari 512 and Porsche 917. Traveling from England to Italy, Sicily, Belgium, Germany and France, he made personal friends of the drivers and team personnel. Closing Speed is West s first novel and is a fictionalized account of that historic championship. Ted West lives in Westchester County, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demontreville Press, inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978956346
• ISBN 13: 9780978956349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335