Stealing Speed (PB) - Description
Now available in paperback, this highly acclaimed book
tells the compelling story of how one of Japan's biggest motorcycle
manufacturers stole a Nazi rocket scientist's engine secrets from behind the
Iron Curtain to conquer the world. In 1961, with the Cold War at its height,
East German motorcycle manufacturer MZ was using World War II rocket technology
to win Grands Prix, only for rider Ernst Degner to defect and sell the secrets
to Suzuki, while his wife and children were drugged and smuggled through the
Berlin Wall. The following year Suzuki and Degner made history by winning the
world title. Branded a traitor by the communists, Degner suffered horrific
injuries in a fiery racing accident and died in mysterious circumstances.
