The Fast Set

* Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record
* The story of the speed kings - the obsessive fast-car record-breakers of the 1920s to 1940s

entertaining and authoritative ...

splendid history ... Jennings brilliantly conveys the rattling turmoil of being in the cockpit of one of these monster cars

This terrific book had me gripped from the start ... a lovely read, full of excitement ... Jennings has captured the essential characteristics of these men - their sadness - extremely well.

Thoroughly entertaining yet extremely informative.

Charles Jennings was born in London and was educated there and at Oxford University. He is married with two children, and lives in London. He writes for a range of newspapers including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Times