Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales: Guy Martin

Guy Martin can`t sit still. He has to keep pushing - both himself and whatever machine he is piloting - to the extreme. He`s a doer, not a talker.

That applies whether Guy`s competing in a self-supported 750-mile mountain bike race across Arizona, or trying to reach 300mph in a standing mile on the 800-horsepower motorbike he built in his shed. And during his TV adventures, travelling through Japan, winning records for the world`s fastest tractor, re-creating the famous Steve McQueen Great Escape jump, discovering the toil and sacrifice of the D-Day landings and trying to cut the mustard as a Battle of Britain pilot.

Guy`s become a dad now and he`s hoping that one day his daughter will grow up to be a better welder than he is. Oh, and he`s still getting up at 5am to work on trucks in for service or to be out on his tractor, working the Lincolnshire land he`s always called home.

This is Guy Martin`s latest book, in his own words, on the last four years of his life that make the rest of us look like we`re in slow motion.

We`re here for a good time, not a long time. To Guy, if it`s worth doing, it`s worth dying for.