About the books

	SIRENS Sirens is the first book in The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs series, and describes the earliest exploits of consequence for Jerry Staute. In the act of saving two girl classmates from a sporting event riot, he ends up in the sights of a third that he's just met, who's in service to a gang of malevolent intent. A hair-raising escape from the gang's clutches only leads to further complications, as the apparent femme fatale ends up being more a victim of circumstances than Staute himself. Staute soon finds himself enamored of her, and things become still more problematic for the two. But this romantic entanglement only serves as the prelude to a much more serious affair, involving just about the last female Staute would ever have expected...
	NECESSARY ENDS In this, the second book, Staute gets several hard lessons about life. Temptation, over-confidence, and impulsive, unthinking behavior all bring about unforeseen dangers for Staute and friends. From stopping a fiend from torching their hometown, to rescuing people from a wildfire, to putting an end to one killer's rampage, Staute and friends seem to find themselves in one predicament after another, growing up as they are in one of the wildest parts of 1970s America. Necessary Ends also includes many details about the construction of Staute's custom-built car Shadowfast (much of which took place during the time span covered here).
	DEEP IN THE THROAT OF TEXAS Staute and friends travel to Texas in search of fun and jobs during a summer vacation from college, only to find things there much harder than any of them had expected. This leads to a falling out, with Staute going off on his own. For a while, Staute finds himself living in his car; working construction by day, and evading police by night. But for Staute, things are about to get much, much worse-- as well as much, much better. For he's destined to duel to the death with one maniacal cop; get his own close encounter with tornadoes; and have his life forever changed, by one unforgettable Texas woman.
	DRIVING NEEDS Jerry Staute's return to college soon puts him into a blazing firefight with a deranged military instructor, in an effort to save his classmates. The stress of the aftermath has him drop out soon afterwards. That leads to an unusual job interview-- and even more unusual audition. Staute's new job begins with a mighty bang, and only ramps up from there, as he rescues one girl from a cult, and one family from a murderous gang in the mountains of Kentucky. But getting forced into an off road race for his life through mountain wilderness in his street car, pursued by a gang equipped with motorcycles and four wheel drives, will spell the end of this particular job for Jerry Staute.
	NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP The final book in the Driver Logs series begins with Jerry Staute and Shadowfast racing a V-12 Ferrari through hair pin turns on the Tennessee/North Carolina border, for one of the best European supercar versus American pony car match ups in history. After that, they face their biggest road war ever, as a crime lord of Staute's hometown decides he's had enough of the pair. Finally, Staute gets a 'respectable' driving job-- as part of a security convoy escorting V.I.P.s-- only to encounter an all out assassination or kidnapping attempt on their charge. With the rest of the convoy knocked out of action (and reinforcements nowhere in sight), there's only one way to escape...
	DARK HORSE: THE OFFICIAL SHADOWFAST SUPERCAR TECHNICAL REFERENCE Dark Horse is all about the mechanical star of The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs: Shadowfast himself. A heavily modified 1969 Ford Mustang Mach One, Shadow ultimately ended up boasting many parts and tweaks worthy of the fastest Boss and Shelby racing Mustangs of the era-- as well as a few outlaw devices to boot. Dark Horse offers readers enough information to build their own modern clone of the car if they wish (although for obvious reasons I can't recommend adopting the illegal parts of the design). Feedback from readers indicates that certain of Shadow's innovations from decades back are being added to some 21st century race and rally cars today.
	A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM Almost twenty years after his Shadowfast driving days, Jerry Staute leads an entirely different life, helping to manage multi-million dollar research and development projects for both business and government. At least until an unusual mugging on the streets of Boston leaves him badly incapacitated one day. In the aftermath, he suffers a temporary relapse to a state of derangement he'd suffered only once before, some years previous. After regaining his senses, Staute realizes that he now recollects all new and astonishing experiences from his college days, 18 years past. Staute fears he's losing his mind; or else someone now has the scary ability to inject false memories into a person's head (and selected him as their first victim). Desperate to find some clue to who had done this to him and why (and confirm he wasn't simply losing his marbles), Staute begins examining his new memories of events he is sure never happened, and soon finds himself enraptured by the tale he finds there.
	MEETING OF THE MINDS The second book of The Chance of a Realtime continues Jerry Staute's fantastic romp through future events both dire and exquisite. Staute has been coached in advanced space-time physics by accidental time-travelers, who believe him to be a younger version of the 21st century genius who first conceived of their core technologies. If the travelers are correct as to his identity, perhaps Staute can resolve the problem which has set them adrift across time, and enable them to reach home again. But Staute's efforts soon lead them into a future war instead, and Staute finds himself under siege from both within and without.
	THE MADNESS OF DREAMERS The third book of The Chance of a Realtime has the ship and crew discovering a gateway into a terrible virtual world, where one insanely rich man freely tortures thousands of captives. While they cannot change history and free the victims, they must never-the-less send Staute and an android companion into the living nightmare to obtain data critical to their continued journey through time. There, the duo must contend with war bots, monsters, and mythological gods brought to life.