A reclusive painter, living in a bothy in Scotland, is beaten by a group of strangers and left for dead shortly after learning of the death of his stepfather. They are seeking something to do with his dead stepfather, but he knows nothing.
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The unexpected arrival of a new apprentice jockey at his father's racing stables heralds the beginning of a series of dark happenings for Neil Griffon. First his father suffers a grisly accident, and then Neil is brutally assaulted and abducted. The price for his freedom will mean the betrayal and deception of those who trust Griffon most. But he has no choice: a no-compromise crime czar has made an ultimatum--that his own eighteen-year-old son be hired by Griffon's stables to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby. And the young man must be trained to win. Or else....
First pub 1970. Thriller set in the world of horse racing.
Henry Grey is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's match-making plots and whose greatest joy is to ride as an amateur steeplechase jockey. But on a sudden impulse, he throws in his respectable desk job to join a firm which transports racehorses all over the world.
Jonah Dereham, un homme d'affaires prospère dans le domaine des chevaux, refuse de rejoindre un groupe de commerçants qui exigent des commissions élevées des propriétaires pour des ventes avantageuses. Dereham devient la cible d'actes de violence : il perd un cheval qu'il vient d'acheter, un autre cheval précieux disparaît mystérieusement, puis son écurie prend feu, et il échappe de justesse à la mort. Plusieurs amis lui conseillent de se plier à la loi du plus fort, mais Jonah refuse toute suggestion et devient l'ennemi juré du chef de la bande ainsi que de son conseiller mystérieux. Dans un monde où l'intégrité est mise à l'épreuve, Dereham lutte pour défendre ses principes face à une menace grandissante, révélant ainsi les dangers qui guettent ceux qui osent s'opposer à la corruption.
Halley is looking into a nobleman's permanent losing streak when he discovers a murdered jockey.
A surefire computerized betting system draws desperate men who will do anything to gain control of it.
British investigator David Cleveland has come to Oslo to investigate a champion jockey's disappearance right before the National, a race he was certain to win. But he's almost drowned in a fjord for his troubles. David knows accident and coincidence couldn't begin to explain this little mishap or the oncoming gruesome string of deaths that David Cleveland would find was meant to include his own....
Een jonge bankier tracht zijn cliënt, een paardenfokker, te helpen wanneer in diens stoeterij twee moorden worden gepleegd.
In Noorwegen wordt een Engelse jockey vermoord; een industrieel blijkt er iets mee te maken te hebben.
Een jockey komt de eigenares van zijn paarden te hulp als haar echtgenoot onder druk wordt gezet.
