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9780718124816: Proof
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ISBN 10 : 0718124812 ISBN 13 : 9780718124816
Editeur : Michael Joseph Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

A racing thriller in which a wine merchant finds himself caught up in a crime involving a suspicious consignment of whisky.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.

He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.

A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Tony Beach, wine merchant, knows his scotch, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seems harmless enough. But the bottle contains firewater of a highly explosive nature - and, without intending it, Tony finds himself trapped on a one-way route into danger. From a harmless Sunday morning party at a racing stable and onwards to the edge of death, Tony comes nearer and nearer to a lethal adversary and, unexpectedly, to a fuller knowledge of his own true self. Set in the world of wine and spirits, PROOF is crafted with Dick Francis's usual high standard of drama, suspense and invention.

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Éditeur
Michael Joseph Ltd
Date d'édition
1984
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0718124812
ISBN 13 
9780718124816
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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