Spectator Sport

About the Book

Indianapolis' 500-Mile Race, "the world's greatest sports spectacle," was rained out three consecutive days in 1973, and marred by lethal wrecks. Thousands of drunken race fans made the Speedway a vast encampment of garbage, misery and debauchery. The event is vividly recreated through a dozen fictional characters, their lives interwoven in crisis. A true study in violence and voyeurism.

About the Author

James Alexander Thom is an Indiana-born, former newspaper journalist and magazine freelancer, as well as a former lecturer at Indiana University School of Journalism. He is the author of seven deeply researched American frontier novels, including The New York Times bestseller Follow the River, and Panther in the Sky, which received the Western Writers of America Best Novel of the West Award. Both novels were made into television network movies.