Speed Week

by S.V. Date

Book Overview

Ah, Daytona Beach, home of sun, sand, and motor oil. For stock-car racing heir Nick Van Horne, it's a place worth millions--tens of millions--once he gets his RaceWorld theme park under way, but there's just one little problem: his estranged wife, Barbie, is suing to keep all cars off the beach for the sake of the sea turtles. With time running short, Nick does what any red-blooded Daytona Beach husband with a troublesome wife would do--he decides...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425182223
• ISBN13: 9780425182222
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Too, too funny

I foolishly paid attention to a reviewer below and avoided this book for more than a year, despite having enjoyed Smokeout. So then I read Deep Water and loved it. And then Black Sunshine and loved it. So finally I bought and read Speed Week. And you know what? Hiaasen was right! This book is absolutely, flat-out hilarious! Murder-for-hire in Daytona Beach, with some of the dumbest criminals in the world. As somebody who spent more than one Spring Break down there when I was in college, I can testify that Mr. Date didn't have to make much of this up. Highly recommended.

Out of print? WHY?

Think I like his kooky characters even moreso than Hiassens if that's possible. Like going on a ride at Cedar Point and a ride at the Fair. They're similar, but not quite :-)

Fast-paced and witty

This is a fun read. It moves fast with lots of unexpected plot twists, and has some great characters. There's lots of outrageous sex too--as can be expected from a book set in the sun and sleaze of Daytona beach. Read this book especially if you like Carl Hiassen.