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Tim Ekaterin raised millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Sandcastle, a champion racer, only to discover an apparent defect in the horse. Investigating further, Ekaterin learns that the business of investment banking is nothing compared to the cutthroat world of horseracing-a world where violence and murder only raise the stakes...
"The most elaborate plot Francis has yet devised."-The Washington Post Book World
"The unraveling…comes with all the breathless pace we have come to expect of this superb writer."-The New York Times Book Review
Tim Ekaterin raised millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Sandcastle, a champion racer, only to discover an apparent defect in the horse. Investigating further, Ekaterin learns that the business of investment banking is nothing compared to the cutthroat world of horseracing-a world where violence and murder only raise the stakes...
"The most elaborate plot Francis has yet devised."-The Washington Post Book World
"The unraveling…comes with all the breathless pace we have come to expect of this superb writer."-The New York Times Book Review
He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.
A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780425237755 |
| ISBN-10: | 0425237753 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Francis, Dick |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 171 x 108 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Dick Francis |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.11.2010 |
| Gewicht: | 0,159 kg |
He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.
A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780425237755 |
| ISBN-10: | 0425237753 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Francis, Dick |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 171 x 108 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Dick Francis |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.11.2010 |
| Gewicht: | 0,159 kg |
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