Book 1: White Lightning

It's the late fifties, Elvis is on the radio, and a new sport is breaking out of the South to a wider, more appreciative audience. Book 1 in the ROLLING THUNDER STOCK CAR RACING SERIES introduces us to Jodell Lee, a young man with a dream beyond dirt farming and running moonshine whiskey for his grandfather through the mountains of east Tennessee and North Carolina. Along with his cousin, Joe Banker, and best friend, Bubba Baxter, he begins a promising racing career, challenging the likes of Junior Johnson, Ned Jarrett, and Richard Petty...all at a time when stock car racing is moving from small dirt tracks to the bigger speedways. The explosion of stock car racing as the number one spectator sport in America roars to life in this pedal-to-the-metal story of one man's rise through adversity to fame and fortune.

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