Review
"A winner from the starting gate to the last hurdle."
Product Description
'Always a cracking read' Daily Mail
Book Description
The multi-million pond Stratton Park racecourse in Wiltshire faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee Morris, architect, builder and father of six healthy sons, is reluctantly drawn into the turmoil. As the Strattons fight for control in the boardroom, Lee finds himself forced to take sides. Until the day a massive explosion on the racecourse threatens his own and his children's lives. Suddenly it isn't just the future of Stratton Park that's at stake . . . 'A writer of champion class' The Times
About the Author
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.
