Second Wind
Reader: Tony Britton
Perry Stuart is a TV meteorologist who routinely works before the cameras. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart’s profound weather knowledge and...
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The Edge
Reader: Tony Britton
To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation - and proving to be a slippery...
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The Danger
A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore....
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Under Orders
Reader: Tony Britton
A former champion jockey, Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well – but in his day, jockeys didn’t usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is...
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10-Lb Penalty
Reader: Tony Britton
At nearly eighteen, easy–going Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven towards a life of public service and...
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Odds Against
Reader: Tony Britton
Sid Halley, champion jockey, had to give up racing when his hand was smashed. But his next job brings him a bullet—right in the middle of his chest. As he would soon discover, life as a private...
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Decider
Reader: Tony Britton
Free choice? There’s no such thing, according to Lee Morris, architect, engineer, jobbing builder and entrepreneur. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality, he says. Stratton Park racecourse,...
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Nerve
A man doesn’t publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticking out of his leg, and his rides over for the...
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Trial Run
A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious ‘Aloysha’ has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew...
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Risk
Reader: Tony Britton
As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky: as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate-list of several fraudsters, but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped. Not from a...
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Smokescreen
When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and...
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Come to Grief
Reader: Tony Britton
Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in ‘Odds Against and Whip Hand’, is back facing new dilemmas and dangers. The opening finds him having uncovered an obnoxious...
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For Kicks
Common sense said that the whole idea was crazy but when offered huge sums of money to move to England and help the Earl of October uncover a suspected racehorse dope scandal, Danny Roke finds the...
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High Stakes
Reader: Tony Britton
The pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks his trainer, a one time friend whom he suspects is a crook. Racing may have its rewards, but as Scott finds out not all...
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Wild Horses
Reader: Tony Britton
Valentine, a blind, confused old man on his deathbed, seeking his peace with God, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest. This puts Thomas in a...
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Knock Down
Reader: Tony Britton
It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is just what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when...
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Whip Hand
There are two worlds in racing: winning and losing. Private detective Sid Halley has gone from one to the other - fast. First his career as a jockey ended when he lost his hand in a fall. Then his...
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Banker
Reader: Tony Britton
Tim Ekaterin's bank is about to invest in a œ5million stallion called Sandcastle. But racing is riddled with all kinds of Tim Ekaterin’s merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure...
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Silks
Reader: Tony Britton
When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's guilty verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian...
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Comeback
Reader: Tony Britton
Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood – at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theatre...
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Shattered
Reader: Tony Britton
When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Gerard Logan...
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Flying Finish
Reader: Tony Britton
Henry Grey doesn't particularly care for having been born the heir to an earldom. He is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's match-making plots and whose greatest joy is to...
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Longshot
John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist - preferably without starving to death. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall...
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Crossfire
Reader: Martin Jarvis
From international bestselling author Dick Francis and his son Felix comes a gripping new racing thriller. Captain Thomas Forsyth’s tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he’s badly...
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Bolt
Reader: Tony Britton
Kit Fielding’s patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble: her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner. And to enforce the threat all the Princess’s best runners are being...
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