Phoenix

Dynamite burns like a high speed cigar,
a disc of fire moving in a plane through
the cylinder of powder at a little
under seven thousand miles an hour...

Bill Barnes, an investigative reporter, is dynamited on the streets of Phoenix. Forrest Evers knew him.

The former racing driver first came back to Arizona on assignment - the Phoenix Grand Prix. Then to find the ranch his mother willed to him before her death. The ranch he's never seen. But instead of a welcome, Evers walked into more trouble than one man could handle. Under the dazzling light of the desert sky, someone has already staked their claim on his land...

Sally Cavanagh, daughter of a multimillionaire real-estate manipulator, is the key to the men with serious Mafia ties, the shadowy figures who were the subject of Bill Barnes' last articles ... before he died in a blinding ball of flame.

Phoenix was meant to be a rest, a rethink and even a new life. But in a glittering city where the sun shines on more conmen per square inch than Las Vegas, Forrest quickly learns that there is no such thing as a fresh start...

Based on a real incident, Phoenix is the latest high speed motor racing thriller from Bob Judd, the author of three previous Forrest Evers books, Formula One, Indy and Monza. Like Judd's other bestsellers, it's funny, sexy, sophisticated and frightening, accelerating into the paranoid world of big money, big deals and even bigger crimes: a world where the winners push life to the limit. And beyond...

Praise for BOB JUDD

'A Dick Frances on wheels'
JACKIE STEWART

'A bang-up job. Mr Judd gets into the minds and
physical reflexes of the daredevils who drive Formula One cars.
An absorbing, tingling story' - NEW YORK TIMES

'Great pace, very exciting ... full of murder and mayhem.
The climax is well worth waiting for' - PUBLISHING NEWS


Genre: Thriller