For Kicks
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916899
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

For Kicks

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19 Sep 1988
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24 Sep 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Daniel Roke owns a stud farm in Australia. He's young, smart, hard-working and desperate for some excitement - which makes him the ideal candidate for the visiting Earl of October.
The Earl is concerned about a horse-doping scandal that is destroying English racing. He wants to pay Daniel to come back with him, pose as a highly corruptible stable lad and discover who is behind it.
Unfortunately, when Daniel agrees he doesn't realise how close he'll have to get to find the truth. Nor how determined the criminals will be to prevent him living long enough to tell anyone...
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916899
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • 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.

Also by Dick Francis

Even Money
Twice Shy
Flying Finish
Blood Sport
To The Hilt
Driving Force
Whip Hand
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Praise for For Kicks

Unbeatable

Daily Mirror

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