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"A joyride." --Vanity Fair
"A lively tale of Chinese gangs, stock market deceit and murder with jolly, breakneck style and a fine grasp of skater attitude...RUSH has wheels, er, legs." --People
"Hip...Engaging...Memorable...Quick knows how to keep an action plot twisting along." --Publishers Weekly
"Attention all rollerblading, computer-hacking, grunge-listening, omnisexual, multi-pierced twentysomethings. Okay, now attention all those who think RAM is a male sheep and a mosh pit the center of a fruit. And finally, attention all lovers of engrossing works of literature that offer a new look at an age-old story of identity and self-acceptance. The Ultimate Rush has arrived." --Time Out New York
"The first virtuoso chase scene through downtown San Francisco--including a spell atop a BART train--will leave even the quibblers wrung out and chuckling." --San Francisco Chronicle
"I just read a book that made me feel old. And I liked it...I feel like I'm in some parallel universe....Quirk...has not only a feel for these defiant characters, but also true affection. I like them, too." --Mark Johnson, San Jose Mercury News
"Quirk's debut novel is a rollicking read with countless chase scenes, wisecracking dialogue and a smooth and sassy prose style. Good fun." -- Booklist
"Heartstopping...His narrative sputters along with hilariously manic Hunter Thompson-like word-spray." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Slick...Entertaining...Crackles throughout..." -- Library Journal
"We strongly recommend Joe Quirk's novel about an inline skate messenger in San Francisco--if you like your protagonist on wheels." --Inline magazine
"A fast-paced but highly unusual thriller...Quirk's words cut like scalpels at the heart of this interesting and yes, quirky debut...Joe Quirk has come out of nowhere to write a hip, ironic thriller...At certain points as I read, I gasped at the perfect imagery he had created in The Ultimate Rush...Strong writing and whiplash prose...Quirk is a strong new talent."
--Douglas Clegg, author of The Children's Hour
"This is wonderful, off-centre, high-action fiction for readers willing to try something different." --Toronto Star
"This is no ordinary thriller. As roller-blade-hero says to bike punk Spider: 'What seems at first to be lame might actually be pretty hype shit'...language that thrills. This book sings in San Francisco speak of love between a sugar-strung blader and a blue-haired 'planker' (skateboarder) who take on crooks, cops and bankers." --The Guardian (UK)
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR005147017
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Strap yourself in for the fastest action thriller on wheels. First-time novelist Joe Quirk races into traffic with a high speed action thriller that hurls a rollerblade messenger against the San Francisco PD, the Chinese Mafia and a WWW of high-finance murderers. As the sole rollerblading Helvetica at a SF delivery service, Chet Griffin is the fastest messenger in town. Every day, he delivers critically confidential packages but when he hands over an already-opened envelope containing a floppy disk with billion-dollar information, a deadly serious customer demands satisfaction. On a routine run, Chet's messenger co-worker gets murdered, the finger's pointed at him and Chet finds himself on a rush job to save his own life. Driven by family ghosts and a little-guy rage against the big-guy machine, Chet enlists the help of his skateboarder-chick best buddy and his superhacker roommate and takes off across the city to track down the evidence he needs to clear his name - and put away the bad boys who want him dead. With ultrafast pacing and attitude to burn, it's a heart-clenching chase of cat and mouse leading up to a blade-churning bullet-blasting finish like no other. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR004008811
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