The Danger
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'One of the best Dick Francis thrillers. Keeps the reader hooked to the end' 5***** Reader Review
'A real page-turner. It does alarming things to your blood pressure and tugs at your heart-strings the same time!' 5***** Reader Review
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A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car. A little boy playing on a south coast beach. The Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore.
One after the other, they suffer the same nightmare ordeal: kidnapping.
But there is one thing connecting these cases, for the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a racehorse owner. Soon a picture of the person behind this international chain of crime starts to emerge - a lover of Verdi, a man with a cool and calculating brain and an aficionado of the racing world.
Andrew Doublas, brought in to advise and help the victims and their families, proceeds with all his customary diplomacy and courage, only to find himself playing a dangerous part:
The role usually reserved for his clients . . .
Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, The Danger is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.
Praise for Dick Francis:
'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror
'The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman
'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
'A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever' Sunday Express
'The master of suspense and intrigue' Country Life
'Francis writing at his best' Evening Standard
'Still the master' Racing Post
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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.
