{"product_id":"racing-in-the-dark-9781471198281","title":"Racing in the Dark","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious...gripping and sometimes tragic' Robbie Coltrane\u003cbr\u003e The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans – the race they made their own. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLe Mans, 1927. \u003c\/b\u003eW.O. Bentley peered into the dusk. His three cars, which had led from the start, were missing. Two years running he had failed to finish. Once again he was staring into a void. Racing, his shareholders told him, was a waste of money. This race looked like being his last.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e W.O’s engineering skills had been forged on the \u003cb\u003eGreat Northern railway\u003c\/b\u003e and in the \u003cb\u003eskies of the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e, where \u003cb\u003eBentley-powered Sopwith Camels took the fight to Germany’s Red Baron\u003c\/b\u003e. Determined to build and race his own cars, he assembled a crack team from all strata of 1920s Britain, from East End boys Leslie Pennal and Wally Hassan to multi-millionaires Woolf Barnato and Tim Birkin,\u003cb\u003e men in search of adventures to blaze their way out of the dark\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867193094487,"sku":"9781471198281","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781471198281.jpg?v=1722282135","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racing-in-the-dark-9781471198281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}