In Felix Francis's latest horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis
tradition, a London crisis manager gets caught up in a tragic fire, a
murder, and a dark family drama.
Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to
Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable
horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far
more to the simple fire than initially meets the eye...for a start,
human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out
shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery
victim?
Harry knows very little about horses, indeed he positively dislikes
them, but he is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred
racing, where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher
than that of the humans who attend to them. The Chadwick family is a
dysfunctional racing dynasty. Resentment between the generations is rife
and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin
crust of respectability.
Harry represents the Middle Eastern owner of the Derby favourite and, as
he delves deeper into the unanswered questions surrounding the horse's
demise, he ignites a fuse that blows the volcano sky-high. Can Harry
solve the riddle before he is bumped off by the fallout?
