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An interesting horse racing thriller, an undercover expatriate (from Australia) returns to the UK to infiltrate UK horse racing to seek out a conspiracy of race fixers. As ever with Francis, his horse racing work always gives insight into how the British horse racing industry works. 6 out of 12. 2008......more

An Australian stable owner is hired to find out who is doping steeple chase horses and how. Some tension, but seems terribly old fashioned.......more

An enjoyable read and a solid 3.5. Daniel an Australian is employed by October to find out how horses are being doped. A bit farfetched bit very gritty in the description of Dan’s working and living conditions in the Humber stables. Set over an English winter near Durham where Francis captures the s......more

A very likeable book like all the other Dick Francis ones. I don’t rate it as a 5, because it got boring in the middle and the villain were like caricatures. I have a crush on all Dick Francis's heroes and Daniel Roke is no different. As always there was something new to learn about horse racing and......more

What is there to say about Dick Francis? As I think about all of his books (yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I've read them all) I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society - either direc......more