The Edge - Couverture rigide

Francis, Dick.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0718131797 ISBN 13 : 9780718131791

Editeur : Michael Joseph, 1988

Synopsis

The latest novel by Dick Francis, author of 26 best-selling thrillers, an autobiography, "Sport of Queens", and a biography of Lester Piggott. His book published in 1987, "Hot Money", went straight to Number One of the best-seller lists.

A propos du livre

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

A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich.

But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone for everything they've got.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michael Joseph
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718131797
• ISBN 13: 9780718131791
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible