Blood Sport
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916820
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

Blood Sport

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8 Oct 2013
Paperback
24 Sep 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Gene Hawkins is a fixer for his boss Mr Keeble: if Keeble has a problem, Gene fixes it. It's that simple. Sometimes it requires his Luger - mostly it doesn't.
Now Keeble has summoned Gene back from a long-overdue holiday. It seems that a very expensive stallion has been taken in Kentucky. It's the third high-value kidnapping in a few years.
Keeble wants his horse back. Gene is asked to go out there and find it. But what Gene doesn't know is that he's about to get involved with blackmailers and murderers. Looks like that Lugar will see some use...
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916820
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Dick Francis

Dick Francis has written forty-one novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), his autobiography (The Sport of Queens) and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is justly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world.

He has received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Mystery Writers of America have given him three Edgar Allen Poe awards for the best novel of the year, and in 1996 made him a Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000.

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Praise for Blood Sport

The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish

Scotsman

Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end

Sunday Telegraph

Francis writing at his best

Evening Standard