Rosco McGlashan is a legend of Australian motorsport and drag racing. He is the current Australian land speed record holder. His early years were tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centers, eventually leaving home and school at 12. He then drives up north in Western Australia, upping his age from 12 to 16, to find work and fund his racing career.

He fought everyone and everything and, at 17, ended up in prison and even solitary confinement. Once released, his salvation comes through his love of speed and raw horsepower. He focuses his fighting spirit on racing and going very fast. His V8 drag bike and jet dragsters take him from Perth and WA all over the world to race. He meets some incredible people, leading to amazing adventures and tales that will leave you speechless.

He crashes a car at nearly 600 mph and walks away. He also clinically dies on an operating table when another car he was racing went off a mountain road. He was revived and went on to break many more motor racing and speed records. He meets mass murderers and world leaders, then casually chats with the Dalai Lama. Eventually, Rosco turns his attention to capturing the Australian and world land speed records, a goal he set himself at age 12. This motorsport and land speed quest takes him to Russia, where he is kidnapped by the Russian Mafia when trying to buy two MIG jet fighter engines and manages to fight his way out. In 1994, he broke Donald Campbell’s Australian land speed record.

Rosco and the Aussie Invader team are finishing their latest record-breaker, the world’s fastest and most powerful car, Aussie Invader 5R. This car has 200,000 horsepower, the equivalent of 200 Formula cars! You won’t be able to put Rosco: The Fastest Aussie on Earth down. This book is an incredibly inspiring, moving, motivational story of guts, grit, and determination. Quitting is not in this man’s vocabulary.