When Russian mafia boss Viktor Makarov attempts to muscle in on the lucrative and highly profitable Formula Super, a global motor racing empire, its founder and owner is forced to act. As death lurks on the high-speed circuits, hitman Jack Wyatt, a former CIA senior agent, is hired to eliminate the Russian threat.
Meanwhile on the track, the fight for the world championship intensifies, with the leading drivers vying for the title. Among them is a tenacious American, the first female driver to compete at this level, but rumours swirl, suggesting that she only secured the drive because of her relationship with the team owner. Can she prove she’s a formidable talent on the track?
As the season-long rivalry among the drivers reaches its climax, Wyatt cunningly lures Makarov into a fight to the death, but the question remains, who will come out on top?
David Setchfield lives in Cardiff and had a long career as a journalist. He worked as a newspaper reporter at the Cardiff-based Western Mail and South Wales Echo, and then joined BBC Wales, where he undertook various editorial and broadcasting roles. Redlining is his first novel.
David explains: “I wrote this book because I’ve had a life-long love of motor racing. I first took to the wheel of a single-seater race car as a teenager. It was at a wet and windswept former airfield at Snetterton in Norfolk. Would-be Stirling Mosses like me paid to enrol at the Jim Russell racing driver school to experience the thrill of being strapped into a cockpit, driving out of the pits onto the circuit in formation and unleashing the deceptive power of a 1600cc engine. The rain lashed down and a torrent of spray from the cars in front severely restricted visibility but what an invigorating experience – and what fun!
But thoughts of becoming a professional racing driver were soon moderated by the harsh reality of the substantial amount of funding required. It also dawned on me that there were no guarantees I had the necessary talent to pursue a successful career on four wheels. But my experience of piloting a single-seater race car – although relatively brief – had fired a passion for the sport which has never left me. And the nature of motor racing – a global spectacle of high-speed competition, danger and glamour and watched by hundreds of millions across the world – seemed to me to provide fertile ground to create a fictional story.”
