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"Great reading, mixing racing with mystery.  Highly recommended." -- Chris Economaki, National Speed Sport News

When, after a lengthy absence, race driver Pete Hawthorn is unexpectedly offered the chance to return to the Formula One circuit with Scuderia Vitale, a new F-One team, he jumps at the chance.

His dreams of a bright future are dimmed, though, by a decades-old tragedy: the mysterious disappearance of his race driver father, James, somewhere in the jungle near Rio de Janeiro, where he was competing in the World Cup Rally twenty years before.

Denis Windsor, who owned the team Pete's farther drove for back then, turns out to also be the moneyman behind the new Vitale team. But Pete puts his suspicions about this doubtful coincidence aside as the team works around the clock to ready the powerful new cars for the first race.

It's only after the final test session, when Pete and teammate Alberto Vaccarella prove the cars to be fast and reliable enough for the upcoming season, that the past returns with a vengeance as the team arrives at the Circuit Nelson Piquet in Rio de Janeiro.

A multi-million-art theft and multiple murders vie with racing, romance, and the intervention of the Brazilian devil spirit Exu, to resolve the events of the past and make way for future Pete Hawthorne Formula One adventures.

About the Author

After more than 25 years' experience in film and television as an editor, writer, producer and director, Ken Vose made the transition to full time author in 1985. Vose, who lives in northeastern Pennsylvania, is a member of The Mystery Writers of America, The Author's Guild, and The Dramatists Guild of America.
In addition to his novels and non-fiction books, he's written for Provincetown Arts, International Auto Style & Sport, Millimeter, Super Car & Classics, Accent, Forum, and Cigar Aficionado. Ken hosted The Driver's Seat, a syndicated television show. In 2001, Ken was guest curator for the exhibition FANTASY AND FINS: The Artist and the Automobile at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles featuring the work of British-born Magic Realist painter Nicola Wood as well as other artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Benny Andrews, Frank Romero, Betsabee Romero, and Dustin Schuler.
Ken Vose and co-author Jordan Rhodes' theatrical play PAPA: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, about Ernest Hemingway which premiered in 2002, was filmed in 2010. The film was subsequently awarded "Best Historical Drama" at the New York International Independent Film Festival.

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