2008 Woodie Awards
"Drive Me Crazy" wont drive you up the wall
Charla Celestine
Issue date: 9/29/05 Section: No Limits
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"Drive Me Crazy," is an awe-inspiring novel by New York Times best selling author Eric Jerome Dickey. This intense story tells of an ex-con, "Driver," an interesting protagonist, who has just spent two years locked down.
It seems he gets into more misery and drama then he can handle after he attempts to take the straight and narrow path in life. He is a person who has good attributes but was dealt a horrible hand in life.
The way the story is narrated through the voice of this 40 year old parole, makes it almost impossible to put down. It is as if you can feel the smoke all around you in the pool hall he is in, smell the Jack Daniels being poured as he sits at the bar, and taste the blood that pours from his mouth, as he takes a severe beating or two throughout the story.
Drivers' main concern is finding someone to give him a job, someone who is willing take a chance on an ex-con, and nobody was willing to take that type of chance.
Until he met Lisa the sexy but unyielding ex-cop who pursued him so aggressively he was unable to prepare himself for the scandal she would put him right in the center of. After seducing Driver and even letting him drive her husbands Lamborghini, she figures it would be the perfect time to ask Driver to kill him.
After Driver takes a down payment of fifteen thousand dollars he reneges after he actually becomes friends with the man he was sent to kill. The six foot, grey-eyed Jason Wolf Jr owns Wolf Classic Limousine, and his Lisa is constantly around.
You can imagine what a predicament this was for Driver who is now working for Wolf and who owes Lisa fifteen thousand dollars for the hit he was never able to follow through with.
After several months the psychotic Lisa gives Driver three very fast moving days to pay back her money and that's when the excitement kicks into fifth gear. To make matters worse there are a few other women in the picture to make Drivers life even more hectic.