When Mark Shillingford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can’t help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won. Did she lose on purpose? Was the race fixed? Why on earth would she do something so out of character? That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, but she storms off after an explosive argument. It’s the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel... Devastated by her death, and almost overcome with guilt, Mark goes in search of answers. What led Clare to take her own life?

The richest prize in racing. The perfect motive to commit a crime… Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organisation, an informant who is passing on confidential information to fix races. Jeff goes in search of answers, taking on an undercover role as a groom on the backstretch at Belmont Park racetrack in New York. But he discovers far more than he was bargaining for, finding himself as the meat in the sandwich between FACSA and corrupt individuals who will stop at nothing, including murder, to capture the most elusive and lucrative...

"Без следа", Ли Чайлд Сюжет нового блокбастера с участием Джека Ричера - героя-одиночки, бывшего майора американской военной полиции неожиданно завязывается в вагоне нью-йоркской подземки. На этот раз Джеку Ричеру предстоит вступить в конфликт с Пентагоном и противостоять террористам. "Спасибо за твои воспоминания" Сесилия Ахерн После переливания крови у Джойс Конуэй появляется ощущение дежавю. Более того, воспоминания, которые ее преследуют, скорее всего принадлежат мужчине. Что с ней происходит? Кто этот человек, с которым она таинственным образом связана? Можно ли его разыскать? "Адвокатская мантия" Дик Френсис, Феликс Френсис Джеффри Мейсон живет в двух мирах: ежедневная работа адвоката...

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered. Bill Russellis acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare — the violent death of his much-loved wife. But worse is to come when he is accused of killing her and hounded mercilessly by the media. His life begins to unravel completely as he loses his job and his home. Even his best friends turn against him, believing...

Harrison Foster is a lawyer by training but works as a crisis manager for a London firm that specializes in such matters. Summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables slaughters six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favourite for the Derby, Harry (as he is known) finds there is far more to the ‘simple’ fire than initially meets the eye. For a start, human remains are found amongst the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about horses, indeed he positively dislikes them, but he is thrust unwillingly into the world of Thoroughbred racing where the standard of care...

Jefferson Hinkley is back. Operating as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is approached by the multiple-champion jockey, Dave Swinton, to discuss the delicate matter of his losing races on purpose. Little does Jeff realise that his visit to Swinton’s house will result in a brutal attempt on his life. Shortly after Jeff narrowly escapes a certain and grisly death, the charred body Dave Swinton is found in his burnt out car at a deserted beauty spot in Oxfordshire. The police seem think it's a suicide but Jeff is not so sure. He starts to investigate those races that Swinton could have intentionally lost, but soon discovers instead that there are...

Отравить на банкете две сотни гостей, а затем взорвать на трибуне ипподрома без малого двадцать человек ради уничтожения одного-единственного — какой безумец мог решиться на такое злодеяние? И кто упорно пытается отправить на тот свет ресторатора Макса Мортона, попытавшегося разобраться в этой кровавой истории? Ресторанные интриги, мошенничество на скачках, лошади из Южной Америки, какие-то загадочные металлические шары… Постепенно, шаг за шагом, Мортон приближается к разгадке. Вот только любой из этих шагов легко может стать последним…

Felix Francis continues his father's New York Times- bestselling legacy with another edge-of-your-seat read that's classic Francis. Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career- ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker Herb Kovak is murdered, execution style, right in front of him-and 60,000 other potential witnesses. Foxton and Kovak were both independent financial advisers at Lyall Black, a firm specializing in extreme-risk investments. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question everything, from how well he knew his friend to how much he understands about his...

В написании книги «Азартная игра» (Gamble, 2011) сам Дик Фрэнсис не принимал участие, роман сочинен только его сыном Феликсом. Реклама этой книги под именем Дика Фрэнсиса не более чем уловка книготорговцев. *** Во время скачек «Гранд нэшнл» в Эйнтри на глазах у сотен людей неизвестный убивает Геба Ковака, финансового консультанта фирмы «Лайял энд Блэк», человека на первый взгляд совершенно законопослушного и в криминальных историях не замешанного. Ник Фокстон, бывший жокей, друг и коллега Ковака, а также по несчастливой случайности прямой свидетель преступления, просто не может остаться в стороне. А когда и у него над головой начинают свистеть пули, убеждается, что затеянное им...

On the first day of Royal Ascot, the world's most famous horse race, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favorites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmaker — taking over the family business from his grandfather — so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings, and he his losses. He's seen the ups and downs before — but, as the big gambling conglomerates muscle in on small concerns like his, Ned wonders if it's worth it any more. When a gray-haired man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into far deeper turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash. ...