Under Orders

Under Orders

by Dick Francis (Author)

Synopsis

It's the third death at Cheltenham Gold cup day that troubles Sid Halley most... A one-time champion himself, he's weIt's the third death at Cheltenham Gold cup day that troubles Sid Halley most... A one-time champion himself, he's well aware of the perils of racing - but in his day, three bullets to the chest wasn't one of them. So when friend and jockey Huw Walker is murdered after winning the Triumph Hurdle, Halley is thrown into an investigation which delves into the darker side of hunt-racing. Are races being fixed, are bookies taking a cut, are the trainers and jockeys playing a dangerous game? Halley, jockey turned sleuth, once again finds him self in the middle of a life-or-death powerplay, in which his own priorities are tested to their limits...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: Airside Ed
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 07 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 071814998X
ISBN 13: 9780718149987

Author Bio
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.