Outside Service

by Jeff Beck

Owl Crest's membership is a veritable who's who of wealthy golfers, and the staff caters to every whim. Rob Lockwood and Drew Harris oversee the outside service staff, where balancing member egos and employee immaturity is a full time job. While most of the members are there for golf and good times, a few vindictive members take it too far, and something has to be done. Rob and Drew know that they cannot count on anyone else to help, and they devise a plan to go after those members and expose their secrets. Where do they draw the line, and how deep do they go? Who can they trust when everyone has something in their past they would like to forget? But both men have secrets of their own, hidden even from each other. In Jeff Beck's debut novel, he takes us into the private world of an exclusive golfing community, and the massive wealth that comes with it. Beck gives an entertaining look into the boy's club of golf course employees and at the same time a chilling look at what is hiding behind the best security systems and the tallest walls.

432 pages, Paperback

Published September 14, 2016

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.