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Steve McQueen

The Salvation of an American Icon

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Steve McQueen

By: Greg Laurie, Marshall Terrill
Narrated by: John Pruden
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Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, the streets of New York, as he traces the wooly geography of actor Steve McQueen's life, relationships, career, and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle McQueen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt. In the 1960s, McQueen was, according to box office receipts, the biggest movie star of his generation and one of the coolest men to ever walk the planet. Greg Laurie was a teen at the time and an ardent fan of ''The King of Cool", first mesmerized by McQueen in 1963's The Great Escape. Like millions of cinema fans, Greg developed a lifelong fascination with the actor. Now he has a chance to tell McQueen's story.

McQueen was a complex, contradictory man who lived the same way he drove his motorcycles and cars: fearlessly, ruthlessly, and at top speed. After a lifetime of fast cars, women, and drugs, McQueen took a surprising detour. In this book, Laurie thoughtfully interviews members of Steve McQueen's family, friends, co-stars, associates, widow, and pastor to tell of the dramatic life-change for the actor in the spring of 1979 - six months before McQueen was diagnosed with terminal cancer. What were the critical steps that led McQueen to make such a life-altering decision? Perhaps more importantly, why is that part of his story so rarely told? This book answers these questions.

Greg Laurie will follow the seeds of Christianity that were sown throughout McQueen's improbable life where a Light finally shone into the darkness of his troubled life. These seeds miraculously germinated, allowing McQueen to see that redemption through Jesus Christ is a lasting truth more glittering and real than any magic of the entertainment industry.

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I'm a huge McQueen fan.. This story throws light on his real life, although, I'm not a fan of the insidious "preaching" and message of God being woven into the story. Sure, McQueen took to Christianity, but this should just be told about rather than using the opportunity to preach the writers own beliefs in God. But a good listening anyway

Love McQueen but not so much the tone of the book

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This is a book about someone writing a book about Steve McQueen. The author is obviously a big fan, but we find out way too much about his personal life and very little about the subject in the title. The constant comparing of his own rough upbringing, to that of McQueen’s, got frustrating very quick. Too many times, telling the reader what food he had ordered at the various dinners along his trip to research McQueen. And we get it, you have a replica of the Bullit Mustang.
If he could now just write the book we just read about him researching.

NOT a Steve McQueen Biography

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This is not a book about Steve McQueen. It's a book about a preacher writing about Steve McQueen's death bed conversation.

Religious rubbish

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