The cult classic:The Ultimate Rushby Joe Quirk San Francisco. Downhill. No brakes. Chet Griffin, San Francisco's fastest rollerblading messenger, was given a simple assignment. But that delivery turned real deadly, real fast. Seems the package he was carrying contained a single computer disk-- worth a cool billion. On a routine run, one of Chet's co-workers gets murdered, the finger’s pointed at Chet, and he finds himself running for his life. Chet enlists the help of his skaterchick bisexual buddy and his superhacker roommate, and takes off across the city to track down the evidence he needs to bring down a financial Ponzi scheme that uncannily foretells our current crisis. On a wild ride through SF's sloping streets and the twisted channels of cyberspace, Joe Quirk delivers a hip, sexy game of cat-and-mousepad that will leave you breathless. This retro classic takes place in the nineties, before cell phones and ipods, when Google was still called BackRub, and beepers were cool. “Exciting ... a witty, skillfully paced action thriller.”-- The New York Times Book Review “Page-turner of the week!" -- People Magazine “This book flat-out rocks .. some of the best action writing I've ever read.”-- Chistopher Moore, author of Lamb and You Suck "One of the best opening sequences of any novel I've read. A Gen-X novel with the crucial addition of a plot.”-- Richmond Review Amazon.com ReviewIf you thought Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock on a bus was thrilling, wait until you meet Chet Griffin, the hero of Joe Quirk's first novel, The Ultimate Rush. Chet makes his living as the only rollerblading courier in San Francisco, a job that entails screaming down steep hills at high speeds; dodging automobiles, pedestrians, and streetcars; and delivering, among other things, highly illegal stock information all around town. Enter the Chinese Mafia who, for reasons we won't get into here, consider Griffin a threat; suddenly our hero-on-wheels is in mortal danger from more than just a traffic accident. Targeted by a gang of Chinese killers, Griffin and his girlfriend, Ho, careen through a series of high-speed chases and narrow escapes before finally turning the tables on their tormentors in a bloody, but highly original, finale. What makes The Ultimate Rush such a hoot is the way Quirk piles one thriller-genre cliché after another onto his plot, then puts his own quirky twist on them. Hackers, skateboarders, crooked cops, and Chinese assassins keep Chet and Ho hopping and the reader happily going along for the wild ride from first page to last. From Publishers WeeklyCheck out Chet Griffin! He's a tattooed, snake-owning, San Francisco-dwelling, way attitudinous dude! He works as a Rollerblade messenger by day and surfs the Internet as an outlaw computer hacker by night until his courier job?combined with his relentless pursuit of the ultimate adrenaline high?gets him mixed up in an illegal investment scheme. Soon the Chinese and Italian mafias, the police and the FCIC (Federal Computer Investigations Committee) are chasing him and his punk-rock girlfriend through the streets, the sewers and the public transportation system of his native city. Chet may be little more than an amalgam of Generation X stereotypes, and the contrived plot leans a little heavily on previous cyberthrillers like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and extreme-sports action movies like Point Break, but Quirk knows how to keep an action plot twisting along, and his relentlessly bubbly, hip one-liners hit as often as they miss. Readers who don't mind MTV and ESPN2 cliches will enjoy the amusement park of a plot, a handful of engaging characters?particularly Chet's wheelchair-bound roommate?and some memorable wisecracks. Major ad/promo; author tour; audio rights to S&S. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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