Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing: Race to Glory

by Wright, Kent; Keith, Don

• ISBN13: 9780812575088
• ISBN10: 0812575083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-15
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

In the race to glory, only one man can finish first....For Jodell Lee, it's been an exciting, dizzying climb to the top of the stock car racing circuit. Gone are the days of racing round flat dirt ovals on Sunday afternoons. Stock car racing is big business now. Superspeedways have replaced the dirt tracks. Tens of thousands of fans pack the speedways for every race to watch the likes of Lee Petty, Junior Johnson, Fireball Roberts-and Jodell Lee-thunder around the steep-banked tracks of Darlington and Daytona and Charlotte.But it isn't just the business that's changed. So has Jodell. He now has a wife and a child, and also a sponsor. And they're all depending on him to win-expecting him to win.Is the pressure of always having to finish first beginning to take a toll on Jodell? A fiery crash could end his career....in Race to Glory-the exciting sequel to White Lightning and Road to Daytona.

Author Biography

Don Keith is an Alabama native and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he received his degree in broadcast and film. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting, as well as Billboard Magazine's "Radio Personality of the Year" during his more than twenty years in broadcasting. His first novel, "The Forever Season," won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award.

Keith lives in Indian Springs Village, Alabama, with his wife, Charlene, and a black cat named Hershey.