Andy Miller

If you spent a day at Action Park you took your life in your hands

But bleeding customers would happily queue for more, says Andy Mulvihill, until lawsuits finally closed his father’s notorious amusement park

One of the milder amusements on offer at Action Park in the 1980s
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  • Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park

    Andy Mulvihill, with Jake Rossen

    Penguin Books, pp. 272, £14

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