Jim Bosworth aka Allan Bernard Bosworth aka J. Allan Bosworth (1925-1990) was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who left journalism to write novels. He wrote his first two novels—Speed Demon and The Long Way North—as Jim Bosworth before hitting his stride writing seven acclaimed young adult novels under the name J. Allan Bosworth.
An epic novel about one of the last of great cattle drives, a gripping story of men pitting their endurance and courage against the land, the animals, and each other.
Foreman Adam Childress doesn’t know how his men will face the relentless pressure of guiding 2700 longhorns from Texas to Montana, a treacherous, two-thousand mile trail criss-crossed with barbed wire fences and dotted with homesteads and land scarred more deeply by iron plows than by cattle hooves. And then there are the men themselves — tough, hard-eyed loners with nothing in common except their grim dedication to the job.
A craze for speed… what will break first, the flesh or the machine? Speed Demon is a super-charged adventure in the high-speed, nerve shattering world of race car drivers… and it’s the story of their women, whose passions are aroused as much by the roaring machines as by the men who drive them.
Two high-octane car racing novels in one volume: Fast Track by Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and Speed Demon, the classic novel by Jim Bosworth. Buckle up, friends. It’s a hell of a ride.