Rat Race
  • Published: 27 May 1999
  • ISBN: 9780141929637
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Rat Race

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27 May 1999
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27 Aug 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Pilot Matt Shore now spends his days ferrying high-class passengers between English race courses. one eventful trip ends with his plane exploding in a ball of fire, Matt knows he's not that unlucky.

When the police confirm it was a bomb, Matt realises he has a problem. One of his passengers must have been the target - the question is who?

Matt to find out fast - because he's scheduled to ferry the same people over the coming weeks.

Can Matt stay alive long enough to stop the bomber?
  • Published: 27 May 1999
  • ISBN: 9780141929637
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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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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Flying Finish
Blood Sport
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Praise for Rat Race

As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing

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