The Edge/Comeback - Couverture souple

Francis, Dick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330415093 ISBN 13 : 9780330415095

Editeur : Pan Books, 2002

Synopsis

The Edge

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation - and proving to be a slippery character to put behind bars.

Baffled, they call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey to keep an unflinching eye on Filmer and his associates. A mission that takes him from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior – on a luxury transcontinental train journey to end them all.

On board, a troupe of actors are playing out a murder mystery for the amusement of their diamond-studded passengers. Ideal cover for a secret investigator with secrets of his own.

And better still for an ice-cool blackmailer for whom murder is just one of many options . . .

Comeback

Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood – at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theatre was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir.

The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn't solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered the people and what was at stake . . .

And now he know enough to get himself killed . . .

'The old Francis magic sweeps the reader past the post' Mail on Sunday

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dick Francis wrote more than forty international bestsellers and was widely acclaimed as one of the world’s finest thriller writers. His awards included the Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University of Boston. In 1996 Dick Francis was made a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement and in 2000 he was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Sadly he died in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330415093
• ISBN 13: 9780330415095
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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