Smokescreen
  • Published: 8 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718179090
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $29.99

Smokescreen

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18 Sep 1989
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8 Aug 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Edward Lincoln has scaled the Himalayas, survived car chases and defeated scores of assassins. As a movie action man he's even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors.

After finishing his latest film, he visits South Africa to discover why a dying friend's horses are suddenly failing on the race track. Lincoln's attempt to help a friend soon puts him in harm's way. From a nearly fatal interview to a dangerous accident in a gold mine, it seems only luck is keeping him alive.

And in life, unlike the big-screen, there's no coming back from dead . . .
  • Published: 8 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718179090
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • 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 Smokescreen

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