Risk
Author(s): Dick Francis
As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky; as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate list of several fraudsters, but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped - not from a racecourse. Not after winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The identity of the kidnappers unknown, the reason behind Britten's abduction is a mystery. Then, with the help of old school headmistress Hilary Pinlock, he escapes and begins to use his accountant's logic to track his abductors down. But they have other ideas ...
General Information
- :
- : Pan Macmillan
- : Pan Books
- : 0.162
- : 30 April 1979
- : 178mm X 111mm X 20mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Dick Francis
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 823.914
- : 314
More About The Product
"Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menance." 'Dick Francis holds his form like a top-class chaser' - The Times Literary Supplement
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.