The Garage Blog - Gary Grant
…I must admit, that during the first 3 chapters, I cried and I pissed myself laughing. My poor wife, reading next to me in bed, being subjected to hearty belly laughs. There’s a lot of belly…
…If you get the history of racing on the open road, and you want a peek inside the world of semi organized cross country mayhem through the eyes of a competitor who gets it, then you have to read The Driver…(more)
Autoblog - Damon Lavrinc
…Roy’s book highlights a side of the rally world that is rarely seen…(more)
Booklist/American Library Association - David Pitt
…a highly entertaining insider’s look at the world of high-stakes, high-octane, high-risk road rallies…. Roy writes with enthusiasm and with a novelist’s sense of pacing and character. The book is so good, so filled with color and adrenaline, that it plays out like a movie in your mind…
Edmunds - Ken Gross
…Roy’s intriguing book is a primer on how to speed — we mean really speed — on public roads, and, just maybe, not get caught…(more)
Los Angeles Times - Molly Hennessy-Fiske
…But this is more than a testosterone cocktail of a memoir. It’s a joy ride of pithy observations, as Roy opens up the shiny veneer of the outlaw racing world and probes the dirty ethical dilemmas under the hood…(more)
NPR/All Things Considered - Michelle Norris
Race@Off-Road.com - Daniel Spalinger
…The book is so damn good that it may convince you that it’s a good idea to sell your Jeep, mortgage the house, buy yourself a BMW and head out onto the open road to “compete” in any number of the legally questionable road rallies taking place around the world. The irony is that if you give in to this temptation then you’ve missed the point of the entire book…(more)
