10 lb. Penalty - Paperback
by Dick Francis
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Dick FrancisSeries:Dick Francis NovelAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2004-08-01Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:G.P. Putnam's SonsISBN-13:9780425197455ISBN-10:042519745XUPC:9780425197455Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, SportsBook Topic:Traditional, SuspenseSize:6.78 x 4.26 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC83DF68KS
New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis has been hailed as "a master of understated suspense" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). With this blockbuster novel, he lives up to his dazzling reputation, delivering the compelling story of a father and son who must work together to defeat a deadly adversary... Even though Ben Juliard had always dreamt of becoming a jockey, he couldn't say no when his father--a prominent politician--pulled some strings and got him a job in his campaign for Parliament. Now Ben needs to do more than smile for the cameras. With each step up on the ladder of power come new dangers to the aspiring candidate. And as the mysterious attacks grow ever more lethal, Ben discovers that politics can be the most perilous horse race of all...
Languages:EnglishPublisher:G.P. Putnam's SonsISBN-13:9780425197455ISBN-10:042519745XUPC:9780425197455Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, SportsBook Topic:Traditional, SuspenseSize:6.78 x 4.26 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC83DF68KS
Dick Francis was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster. He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books. A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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