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From Booklist
Nick Van Horne's father made his millions in stock-car racing and, near the end of his life, married Joanna, a much-younger woman, to whom he left everything. Now, in order to have any access to the family fortune, Nick must do Joanna's bidding. Her dream is Speed World, a NASCAR theme park to be located in Daytona Beach. She's ready to break ground when a group calling itself Save the Turtles launches a campaign against the park. And guess who directs the turtle-huggers? Nick's estranged wife, Barbie. Nick and Joanna decide to eliminate Barbie, but Nick, composed of equal parts cowardice and idiocy and motivated by greed and testosterone, can't get it right, even with the help of a trained killer shark. In the tradition of Carl Hiaasen and Lawrence Shames, this is a cautionary tale of greed, steamy sex, and irresponsible development populated by characters who have spent too much time in the sun. Fun reading for those who like a little absurdity with their crime. Wes Lukowsky

Carl Hiaasen
"Speed Week is good, twisted fun, cheerfully subversive. The Chamber of Commerce should hate it, which is the highest possible compliment for any Florida novel."(Carl Hiaasen (from back cover))

Chicago Tribune
"Date makes each attempted hit a humorous study in criminal incompetence.... Speed Week is one book you'll be tempted to race through on a rainy spring afternoon."

Tallahassee Democrat
"An engaging, funny, sex-drenched romp among the attractive airheads of Daytona Beach's resort strip."

St. Petersburg Times
"S.V. Date is the latest graduate of the Carl Hiaasen School of Florida Novel Writing, and Speed Week suggests he's among the star pupils.... His plot charges like one of those Daytona racers, and he has the warped sense of humor required to bring Daytona to tacky life. Speed Week is one swift little ride."

Ingram
After stock-car-racing heir Nick Van Horne hires a man to kill his estranged wife, he finds himself consorting with enterprising bikers, sexy pool hustlers, a stepmother with alarming ideas about family, and a former SEAL with a disconcerting fondness for plastic explosives.

About the Author
Shirish V. Date was born in Pune, India, in 1964, emigrating to the United States at age 3 with his parents. He attended public schools in Waltham, Mass., Rochester, N.Y., and Anaheim, Calif., before earning a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University in 1985.

Date was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily student newspaper, and has been a professional journalist ever since. He has covered criminal courts for the Middletown (N.Y.) Times-Herald Record, first Daytona Beach and then NASA for the Orlando Sentinel, and Florida state government for the Associated Press and the Palm Beach Post.

It was on that sailing sabbatical that Date wrote his first novel, Final Orbit, a murder mystery set aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia. It was published by Avon in 1997. His second novel, Speed Week, is a darkly comic thriller based on his experiences in Daytona Beach. It was published by Putnam in 1999. His sailing articles have appeared in Sailing, Cruising World and Sail magazines.

Date is now the capital bureau chief for the Palm Beach Post. He lives in Tallahassee with his wife and two sons.

Book Description
From a veteran Florida journalist comes a novel of dark suspense and even darker comedy. Daytona Beach will never be the same.

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 to have her killed. And in another time-honored Daytona tradition, he decides to do it on the cheap.

In the world of murder-for-hire, though, you get what you pay for, and soon, to his bewilderment, Nick finds himself consorting with enterprising bikers, sexy pool hustlers, venal fortunetellers, a stepmother with alarming ideas about family, a top state legislator with a keen eye for graft, and a former SEAL with a disconcerting fondness for sharks and plastique. Each, in his or her own way, is about to plan a surprise for the unsuspecting Barbie Van Horne--but, with a little help from her friends, Mrs. Van Horne just might have a few surprises of her own for them.

Filled with razor-sharp characterization, pinpoint observations, and a plot with more turns than the Daytona 500 Speed Week is a gem.