Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, Hardcover/Greg Laurie

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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 Mc Queen's life, relationships, career and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle Mc Queen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt. In the 1960s, Mc Queen 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 Mc Queen 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 Mc Queen's story. Mc Queen 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, Mc Queen took a surprising detour. In this book, Laurie thoughtfully interviews members of Steve Mc Queen'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 Mc Queen was diagnosed with terminal cancer. What were the critical steps that led Mc Queen 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 Mc Queen's improbable life where a Light finally shone into the darkness of his troubled life. These seeds miraculously germinated, allowing Mc Queen to see that redemption through Jesus Christ is a lasting truth more glittering and real than any magic of the entertainment industry.