Fuel-Injected Dreams

I visited Rhodes together with a friend in the eighties, and bought a couple of paperbacks, one of which was "Fuel-Injected Dreams." I didn't catch on to it right away, and read it straight through only when I got back home, and that wasn't the last time I read it, and I lent the book to a friend, and we both agree that it is a stunner. So much happens in the book that it's impossible to remember every amazing turn of event if you read the book, say, every two years. The book really gets your adrenaline flowing, and "Adrenaline" happens to be the title of another of Jim's novels. "Dreams" is an equilibristic tour de force, and James Robert Baker was the man who dreamed the novel for us, and I will always love him for doing so, may he rest in peace.

My sister, Liz, stole this book from our local library in 1988. She couldn't get a copy so told them that it had been lost. I first read it in 1990 because she talked about it endlessly and I wanted to understand what was so great about it. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I read it at home, at work, on the toilet, even (dangerously) while driving my car. I finished it on a car park on a Friday afternoon and immediately burst into tears. No book had ever had that effect on me before. We still only have one copy between us. It's missing the cover and the first few pages of publishers notes but we still read it twice or three times a year and quote bits to each other from time to time.I could not do this work justice in review. My feelings are split between wanting the whole world to read the book and wanting to keep it to myself for fear that mass appeal will take something of the magic away. During the first reading, I found myself imagining it as a film, complete with score, sets and director's shouted instructions. Now that I hear a film is in the offing I'm nervous for the 3 reasons. 1. As with the book, will the magic disappear when it is exposed to the masses 2. Will justice be done or will essential parts, phrases and above all the screenplay in my mind be blown away by it's adaptation 3. Will it bomb and JRB be held to ridiculeIf you're involved with the making of this film please, please, PLEASE do it straight and keep the faith.

I am currently adapting FUEL INJECTED DREAMS into screenplay form and I must say that it is the most challenging venture of my life. I love this book more than any I have read in the last ten years and must say that I am truly blessed to be in the position that I am in at this moment. Sadly, author James Robert Baker is no longer with us but I can only hope to do his incredible novel the justice it deserves. By all means, if you can find it, FIND IT! You won't be sorry. Hopefully, a reprinting of the book will come about upon release of the film.