Set mostly in Arizona and Los Angeles, Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night.
Publication
Drive is an expansion of a story of the same name that Sallis originally wrote for the noir anthology Measures of Poison (2002), published by Dennis McMillan Publications.[2] The novel was published by Poisoned Pen Press on September 1, 2005.[3]
Reception
Publishers Weekly called it Sallis' "most tightly written mystery to date, worthy of comparison to the compact, exciting oeuvre of French noir giant Jean-Patrick Manchette."[3]
Paul Skenazy of The Washington Post praised the author's "refreshing, even startling" prose and called it "a lovely piece of work that makes you wish some other writers would take lessons from him."[5]
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the novel "reads the way a Tarantino or Soderbergh neo-noir plays, artfully weaving through Driver's haunted memory and fueled by confident storytelling and keen observations about moviemaking, low-life living, and, yes, driving."[6]