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Deep in the Throat of Texas (The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs)

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I was a bit disappointed at the gap between where the last book left off and where this one started (still in high school to after 1st year in college), but that shows how interested I've become in following Jerry Staute's misadventures.

Jerry and best friend Steve decide to find jobs in Texas for the summer break, and what a regrettable choice that turns out to be. This was a bit harder reading for me than the previous installments. Between the disastrous experiences with girls, harassment from John Law, impoverished living conditions and automotive headaches in different varieties, it just dredged up too many memories I'd rather forget.

Yet there are bright spots. Jerry finds true love in this book. And some of the stunts he successfully pulls off with his Mustang are just incredible. In my younger days I got my musclecar to do some things it probably shouldn't have been able to, but nothing approaching the level of derring-do this kid pulled off.

The writing style is consistent with the 1st 2 books. I'm off to the next one!

Henry Brown is the author of Barbarian Nation: The Delayed Blitz(Krieg), as well as the military thriller Hell and Gone. He is the columns editor at New Pulp Fiction, and does some blogging of his own at the Two-Fisted Blogger.