For Kicks, Francis Dick

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Break In
ISBN: 1405916672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405916677
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: Steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding has just ridden another winner for his patron - the Princess - when his twin sister Holly comes to him with terrible news. A newspaper is printing stories which will put her husband, and his stables out of business. Putting aside the age-old feud, Kit decides to try to find out who is behind these cruel stories.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Banker
ISBN: 0425237753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425237755
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Описание: An investment banker arranges the purchase of a champion racehorse and gets caught up in murder in this New York Times bestseller that's "fraught with violence, conspiracy and, of course, horses" (The Boston Globe).

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

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Driving Force
ISBN: 0425233189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425233184
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5510.00 T
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Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Comeback
ISBN: 0425233316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425233313
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5510.00 T
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Описание: New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction

Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Even Money
ISBN: 0141048735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141048734
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Royal Ascot`s first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as a string of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings, he counts his losses. Then an old man steps forward with a very different claim. The father Ned never knew - long ago believed killed in a car crash - is standing before him.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Even Money
ISBN: 0425235904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425235904
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 6130.00 T
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Описание: Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: The Danger
ISBN: 0425236323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425236321
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Описание:

A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and 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 particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a race horse owner. A picture of the person behind this interanational 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 vicitms and their families, proceeds with all his customary diplomacy and courage. Only to find himeself playing a dangerous part: the role usually reserved for his clients...

'Dick Francis is on a winner all the way'" Observer "

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Proof
ISBN: 033029069X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330290692
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Wine merchant Tony Beach is present at the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season when a runaway horsebox ploughs into the marquee. Witness to the terrible death and destruction Tony believes it is a terrible accident until he becomes involved in the investigation.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Smokescreen
ISBN: 0718179099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718179090
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Edward Lincoln has scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases and defeated scores of assassins. As a movie action man he`s even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he`s asked to visit South Africa to discover why a dying friend`s horses are suddenly failing on the race track.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Driving Force
ISBN: 0330329510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330329514
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Flying Finish
ISBN: 0330021117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330021111
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: When amateur jockey Lord Henry Grey launches himself into a career in the bloodstock market, he finds more danger than he`d anticipated. Henry immediately takes to his new world. That is, until a horse mysteriously dies in transit and a colleague vanishes. Either he has to turn detective or his own disappearance could be next.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Risk
ISBN: 0330257129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330257121
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: This thriller involves a kidnapping of an amateur jockey and accountant and is written by the former National Hunt Jockey and author of many thrillers.

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Straight
ISBN: 0330314424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330314428
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Ex-jockey, Derek Franklin, inherits his brother's jewellery business, mistress and some shadowy business associates. When expensive diamonds go missing, his only hope of survival is to ideify his brother's enemies. From the author of "The Edge" and "Odds Against".

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Trial Run
ISBN: 0330259830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330259835
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: In this thriller, Randall Drew is sent to Moscow to investigate threats against a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games. His brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high. From the author of "Straight".

Автор: Francis Dick
Название: Wild Horses
ISBN: 0330341421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330341424
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Valentine, a dying old man, makes his last confession to a friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest. Wild horses wouldn't drag from a priest the secrets of the confessional, but then film director Thomas is no priest. Should he tell what he knows from the confession?