The fast one

by Robert Daley

World Champion Jack Blakemore and Alex Cavelli, and Italian Prince, are among those who move about Europe from one famous race to another. Cavelli, the aristocratic challenger, courts danger and thrills, but also wins races. Is he courting destruction or not? Blakemore races with the knowledge that the most acute danger—and the most intense pleasure—is payable by death. And Elizabeth Ashford, an American girl on her first trip to Europe, is smitten by both men, but is too young, too naïve to grasp the terrible stakes for which they play. Elizabeth may be their prize, but life is their only triumph.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published March 12, 1979

About the author

Robert Daley is the author of seventeen novels and eleven non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Nice. France.