John Punter, professional gambler and amateur private investigator, has
seen his fair share of crime and shady dealings, both on the race track
and off it. So when the daughter of a bookmaker friend is abducted,
following hot on the heels of a gruesome murder after an
abduction-gone-wrong, Punter's offer of help is gladly accepted. But
then, just when everything seems to be going right, a local trainer hits
a run of unusual bad luck and a young jockey dies under suspicious
circumstances. With the help of a journalist friend, Kate, Punter begins
to put the pieces together, and finds himself drawn into a tangled web
of underworld crimes that are much more sinister than he had
anticipated...
