GRM recommended reading: Stock Car Racer

W.E. Butterworth was the author, and it is from 1966. I read it when I was a child, but I am not sure exactly when. Tunawife bought me a first edition copy for Christmas.

It's a fabulous book. The attention to detail is great, and I was nearly tearing up during a few events which involve only a car.

Essentially, without giving too much away, Dave Wade, a promising and well-liked college sophomore loses control of a race enterprise and is determined to start anew in a new way. The result beings him into the big leagues and exposes him to the more ugly elements of the business of race driving.

HIGHLY recommended. I have a bunch of sick kids, so they actually napped two days in a row, so I read it in those two days.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TMSQEQ/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks! Looks like a proper addition to the library.

He wrote bunch a bunch of them and I think I read most of them in school.

Interesting bit of trivia for what it's worth: The author "W. E. Butterworth" is William E. Butterworth, the same person as (the current author) "W.E.B. Griffin." He's used many different pseudonyms during a prolific writing career, which began in the 1950s. He's well into his eighties now and occasionally collaborates with his son William E. Butterfield IV. If you're a fan of well-written military novels as well as automotive novels, W.E.B. Griffin has written some excellent ones. I prefer his solo work rather than the books he's written with his son.