Longshot
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916707
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99

Longshot

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3 Oct 2013
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall bargained for. Not even the survival guides he's written can help him. So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers approaches Kendall to write his biography, it's an offer he can't turn down.
Kendall becomes immersed in his host's lifestyle: riding racehorses and getting to know the family. But then a local stable girl is found dead - and the party's over.
A killer is lurking in the shadows. And Kendall's survival tips are about to become more useful - and more deadly - than he could ever have imagined.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916707
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • 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 Longshot

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