Knihy od: Francis, D.

There´s a bomb scare at Kingdom Hill racecourse, where failed conman Tricksy Wilcox watches his dreams blown to kingdom come...At Cheltenham´s glittering National Hunt Festival, protocol is rocked as a love-struck owner falls madly in love with her jockey ...There is passion - and revenge - at the glorious Kentucky...

A man doesn´t publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though...

Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is Millace is dead - and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known,...

It´s the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn´t usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely...

Rezhisser Tomas Lajon snimaet fil´m, v osnovu kotorogo legla real´naya istoriya zhizni i tragicheskoj smerti molodoj zhenschiny, proizoshedshaya pochti tridtsat´ let nazad. Nenarokom razvoroshiv osinoe gnezdo, rezhisser vplotnuyu podbiraetsya k razgadke ubijstva. Rasplata ne zastavlyaet sebya zhdat´: nachinayutsya sluchajnye na pervyj vzglyad napadeniya na chlenov s´emochnoj gruppy i samogo rezhissera...

Tim Ekaterin´s merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a #5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it´s the safest bet in racing, but racing is riddled with dubious dealmakers - people to whom no bet is safe until it´s...

In this sequel to Break In, Kit Fielding, champion jockey, attracts trouble on all fronts. He has problems with racing and his fiancee, as well as the old Fielding-Allerdeck feud.

At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon´s home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father´s precious...

This thriller set in the world of jockeys is written by the former National Hunt jockey, Dick Francis.

At 35, Freddie Craft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners from their stables to the races, or brood mares to the stud farms. When a hitch hiker is picked up and someone dies, Freddie is drawn into a complicated conspiracy.

A story of drama and intrigue set on the sinister side of the international racing circuit. Tor Kelsey, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club´s Security Service trails Julius Apollo Filmer, a blackmailer and murderer, onto a luxury train carrying several racehorse owners across Canada.