Garrett's 1922 novel features Henry Galt, a Wall Street financier, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the making: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad. Henry Galt resembles [[John Galt]], the central figure of ''Atlas Shrugged'', a 1957 novel by [[Ayn Rand]]<ref> See [http://books.google.com/books?id=SoqU_RBwhNIC&dq=intitle:driver+inauthor:garrett&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Driver'' (1922) online]</ref> | Garrett's 1922 novel features Henry Galt, a Wall Street financier, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the making: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad. Henry Galt resembles [[John Galt]], the central figure of ''Atlas Shrugged'', a 1957 novel by [[Ayn Rand]]<ref> See [http://books.google.com/books?id=SoqU_RBwhNIC&dq=intitle:driver+inauthor:garrett&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Driver'' (1922) online]</ref> |