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Horse Racing Thriller
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2014
Summary
The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.
Daniel Roke owns a stud farm in Australia. He’s young, smart, hard-working and desperate for some excitement - which makes him the ideal candidate for the visiting Earl of October.
The Earl is concerned about a horse-doping scandal that is destroying English racing. He wants to pay Daniel to come back with him, pose as a highly corruptible stable lad and discover who is behi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405916899 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1405916893 |
| Author: | Dick Francis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Francis Thriller |
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Dick Francis’s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader’s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end
Unbeatable * Daily Mirror *
Dick Francis’s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader’s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Dick Francis
Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953⁄1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott.
During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three ‘best novel’ Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2000.
Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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