Nerve

by Dick Francis (Author)

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  Paperback
  1976

  $3.24

  Mysterious accidents start happening to jockeys, one man is found shot dead, while another is found with a broken leg. When Robb Finn begins investigating, he finds himself caught up in a world of violence and twisted envy.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.24

  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 there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. but Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted envy... Superbly exciting - Daily Express .

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.24

  Robert Finn, steeplechase jockey finds himself the focus of a malicious campaign in which despair, suicide and hatred cross his path once too often, increasingly jeopardising both his personal life and career. As he sets out to reveal its source he finds hitherto undiscovered resources within himself which become a lifeline as events brew up into one man's nerve and another man's cunning.