Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. Until, that is, he’s forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn’t long before Matt realizes that he’s caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are dead-set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds...
Review“THE BEST THRILLER WRITER GOING.”—The Atlantic Monthly
“FRANCIS IS A GENIUS.”—Los Angeles Times
“[THE] MASTER OF CRIME FICTION AND EQUINE THRILLS.”—Newsday
“DICK FRANCIS IS A WONDER.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“FEW THINGS ARE MORE CONVINCING THAN DICK FRANCIS AT A FULL GALLOP.”—Chicago Tribune
Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He’d done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England’s race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He could have been in it. Some quiet life.
Instead he’s landed in the middle of a nightmare world where there is big money at stake. Very big money.
From then on he finds himself hurtling down a tortuous trail where people are not all they appear, and all around him is sudden bloody death...
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