Prove Me Wrong

by Jeff Beck

Prove Me Wrong is a fun adventure and an interesting look inside the world of writing books. In the follow up to his debut book, Outside Service , author Jeff Beck explores a topic lighter than murder and blackmail - how to write a book that the author doesn't want to write. Prove Me Wrong gives an inside look into Tim Dixon's writing career. Dix, as his friends call him, has published four books - and every one has fizzled out. To make amends to his friends, he gets pressed into writing something that he has no interest in writing - a paranormal romance novel. Convinced that he can snap his fingers and produce something worthwhile, his friends are insistent that he could enter the genre and make his mark. He accepts the challenge, to keep his spot in their collective inherited trust, and to prove all of his friends wrong. After all, it can't be just that easy, can it? Before he knows it, Dix's book becomes an overnight sensation, and the literary world is dying to know just who Trace Winston, his anonymous pen name, really is. Filled with memorable characters and touching moments, Prove Me Wrong takes readers along for a ride as Dix and his friends realize that getting everything you want, but not in the way you want it, isn't always a good thing.

352 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2017

About the author

Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck was an English rock guitarist. He was one of three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have recorded with the band The Yardbirds. Beck ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist". Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".

Beck has never attained the sustained commercial success of his fellow Yardbirds guitarists, though the band, along with Beck, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Jeff Beck wise-cracked at the ceremony stating:

“ Someone told me I should be proud tonight...But I'm not, because they kicked me out. Fuck them! (Laughs)... ”

Much of his output had been instrumental, and his releases had spanned genres, ranging from blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica. This versatility had made it difficult for Beck to establish and maintain a broad following.

Nevertheless, Beck had gained wide critical acclaim for his work as a guitarist. Beck was the winner of eight Grammy awards, the first being Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Escape" from the album Flash at the 1986 Grammys. - Wikipedia

Away from the stage, Beck was an avid collector of American-style hot rods. Hot rods are a recurring theme in many of his more recent albums.