Dimensions
160 x 244 x 28mm
Short Stories.
A bomb scare at Aintree in 1997 halted the Grand National and the racecourse was evacuated; twenty-two years earlier, Dick Francis had written a short story describing such an event at another course. Now, for the first time, Dick Francis has compiled a volume of short stories, the settings ranging from the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham, where a middle-aged owner falls hopelessly in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where the demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. There are diverse characters from book-makers to news editors, from crooked lawyers to contract killers.
This book has thirteen plots to marvel at, thirteen sets of characters to admire, and thirteen stings in the tail to gasp over. Dick Francis is as much master of the short story as he is of the novel.
