Comeback Author:Dick Francis They say you should never go back. Most people do, however, survive a peek at their childhood environs. But when globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin goes home, he not only risks his own hide, but those of others -- including racehorses. — Darwin, on his way from Tokyo to a holiday in England, stops over in Miami, where he's cau... more »ght in a mugging that leaves his two acquaintances battered. He accompanies them to their destination: Gloucestershire, England, Darwin's childhood home. Waiting for Darwin are long-hidden memories, a string of racehorse deaths, and homicide. Darwin soon realizes that the key to the dark events involves his own past -- a discovery that makes Darwin wish he'd never come back, because he just might never leave again... alive.« less
Beautiful hardback copy! A globe hopping diplomat comes face to face with the worst corruption, in Dick Francis's suspenseful new mystery-his thirtieth thoroughbred thriller.
Fresh from a Tokyo posting young British First SECRETARY Peter Darwin decides to holiday in England before taking up his next assignment for the Foreign Office. DURING a MIAMI stopover, Peter is accidentally caught in a scuffle that leaves 2 acquaintances beaten and robbed. Peter stands by his new friends until they are safely delivered to their destination; Gloucestshire, England, his childhood homeland scene of long buried memories. There he walks unexpectedly into a veterinary surgeon's racehorse related nightmare. And as his involvement with the doctor's plight grows and more racehorses meet an untimely end, Peter realizes that events from his past are the keys to saving some decent people- and the things that they love-from destruction.
Does PETER HAVE THE SKILLS TO SOLVE THIS MYSTERIOUS enigma? And to stay alive himself?