Publisher's Synopsis
'Thunder Road' - you find it in any city after the cops are in bed. It's where street racers go to test their machines - and their nerve. For me it was ...the steep rising pitch of the turbo, thescreaming tyres and curtain of white smoke hanging behind me: all the stuff that spells street racing. Trace is 19 and has grown out of small town ways. He's hungry for more. In Auckland he hooks up with Devon, a guy with the Midas touch, who introduces Trace toburn-offs, big city style. Soon everything is smoking. There is a code with us drivers: you don't criticise and you don't show fear. When Trace falls for a girl even Devon says is out of hisleague, loyalties are stretched. Then Devon hits on a scheme for hauling in cash. Soon enough he and Trace find out who really controls the strip. As the underworld closesin, it looks like their friendship is heading for burn-out. Menacing, suspenseful - a gripping novel from a remarkable talent.
