Trial Run
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916769
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

Trial Run

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30 Sep 1993
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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.

Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew is reluctantly off to pre-Olympic games Moscow, as a favour to royalty. One of the blue bloods is destined to compete in the games and there are concerns - both of safety and of scandal - that only Drew, with his racing connections, can sort out.

On arriving - speaking no Russian and wishing he were back home - Drew is supposed to identify and contact one Alyosha to clear up the scandal. Instead, he finds himself tailed by the KGB and embroiled in foiling a terrorist plot - or die trying.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916769
  • 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 Trial Run

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

A neat and nasty, all-too-plausible plot

Financial Times