What they're saying ...
“I know one thing: If we see him, we don’t have a car fast enough to pull him over.”
Michael Carr, Former assistant U.S. attorney
“His story is every bit as rollicking as anything you’d see on Miami Vice, from speedboat supply runs between South Florida and the Bahamas to champagne and coke-fueled parties before races.”
London Guardian
Winner of the Best Book Award by the Motor Press Guild
By Randy Lanier with A.J. Baime. Soon to be a major motion picture! The story of Randy Lanier, the 1986 Indy 500 rookie of the year and all-around racing champion who was funding his team with one of the biggest marijuana smuggling operations of all time. Winner of the Best Book award from the Motor Press Guild.
The high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.
As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he’d never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all changed when he bought a speedboat and began smuggling pot from the Bahamas. Fueled by what would become a historically massive smuggling operation, he started racing cars and became an overnight sensation. For Randy and his teammates, money was no object, and bigger hauls meant faster cars. At every event they attended, they were behind the wheel of the best machinery, flaunting their secret in front of huge crowds and live television cameras. But no matter how fast they drove, they couldn’t outrun the law. As Randy came closer to reaching his dream of high-speed glory, one of the biggest drug scandals ever to hit the professional sports world was about to unfold.
Set in the 1980s Florida of Miami Vice, this is the unbelievable story of an ordinary guy whose attempts to become famous doing the thing he wanted most—become a world class race car driver—devolved into a tale of one of the biggest crime rings and drug scandals of the 1980s. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime, Randy tells the whole truth for the first time, a gripping narrative, a sports story for the ages, and a shocking true crime epic.