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Dick Francis Omnibus: Trial Run / Whip Hand / Twice Shy
Dick Francis Omnibus Trial Run / Whip Hand / Twice Shy Author:Dick Francis Trial Run — Randall Drew, gentleman horseman, didn't want to accept the prince's assignment. — But one of the royal-family members wanted to ride in the Moscow Olympics and somebody was threatening to kill him if he did. — And nobody knew who or why or how. — So Drew was off to Moscow--tracking a mysterious assailant whose u... more »gly habits of sabotage and murder were but a rehearsal for a devastating new wave of terrorism.
Whip Hand
Sid Halley had been a champion jockey. But those days were lost in a fall beneath 500 pounds of horse that cost him his left hand and his racing future -- and fractured his marriage in the bargain.
Now medical and engineering science have provided him with a marvelous mechanical substitute for his whip hand. But there are no substitutes in Halley 's life for his two great loves: his beautiful, bitchy ex-wife., and thoroughbred racing.
And they're both in trouble ..trouble that has led him into a battle of nerves with an elegant, vicious aristocrat -- where losing could be worse than the loss of his hand, his career or his wife -- and where surviving means a desperate confrontation with his own worst fear.
Twice Shy
Young physicist Jonathan Derry is given some musical tapes by a friend. But the tapes are really an elaborate computerized horse betting system that can make the owner a rich man--or a dead one. Once again, high-speed thriller-master Dick Francis weaves a constantly twisting plot, a wicked villain, non-stop action and an explosive showdown in a superb book that races to the finish line, leaving you breathless for more...« less