Book description
The classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s
Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by
women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning Formula One world
champion, the poster-boy for the world's most thrilling and richly
financed sport. But a recent devastating accident has driven him to drink.
And now his beloved sport is changing: too many things are going wrong
in too many races. And when Johnny is the apparent cause of the latest
accident, he decides the time has come to sort things out. But what he
finds has nothing to do with cars, and some people will do anything to
prevent him from discovering the truth… Alistair MacLean, the son of a
Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he
joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow
University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent
aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS
Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is
now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th
century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been
filmed.
