Reviews
"All I can say is: Wow! Go Like Hell drops you right smack in the middle an intense and ferocious battle between Ford and Ferrari as they struggle mightily for race car supremacy in the 1960's, a drama played out on a little track in France known as Le Mans. Baime's exceptional voice puts the reader into minds of the drivers, designers, and executives who formed the Golden Age of racing; his fantastic descriptions allow the reader to feel the pounding of the cylinders as the race cars rocket down the straights and through the esses of the circuit. If you like cars--nay, if you have ever seen a car--you must read this book!"
-Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
"One of sports' greatest--and, until now, overlooked--grudge matches finally gets the treatment it deserves in A.J. Baime's comprehensive, dramatic and always entertaining book that's sure to appeal to racing buffs, gearheads, and anyone who enjoys a good underdog story."
- Mark Bechtel, Sports Illustrated writer and author of He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back
"Light up a Lucky Strike. Pour yourself a good stiff drink. Settle into the not-so-long-ago early 1960s at LeMans when speed equaled sex and more speed equaled more sex, when hydrocarbons were burned without guilt, when knights errant in exotic automobiles crashed and often died for corporate glory. 'Go Like Hell' is a wonder, chuck-a-block with great heroes and villains, a pedal-to-the metal account of greed and gumption, a chronicle of obsession and vain glory. Don't worry about that seat belt. Just go for the ride."
- Leigh Montville, author of The Big Bam, Ted Williams and At the Altar of Speed
"Go Like Hell is an epic. Ambitions, lives, fortunes, friendships, and a place in history--all are on the line in this tale of Ford versus Ferrari. A.J. Baime marvelously carries the reader into the pits and onto the race tracks, but more important, he reveals the people behind the machines."
-Neal Bascomb, author of The Perfect Mile and Hunting Eichmann
"Mix sport, death and big business, the biggest. Throw in portraits that are vivid and recurring of Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II, who owned the machines and who would pay any price to win, whether in money or lives; and the drivers Carroll Shelby, John Surtees, Phill Hill, Masten Gregory and others, men obsessed with speed and fast cars while trying not to get killed. Build your story around what was then the most famous race in the world. Go Like Hell is a very hard book to put down. Sharp and suspenseful from beginning to end."
- Robert Daley, author of The Cruel Sport and Year of the Dragon
