Bolt (A Dick Francis Novel) - Softcover

Francis, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425202887 ISBN 13: 9780425202883

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005

Synopsis

Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit's nemesis has plans to knock him off the track—and plant him under it.

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From the Inside Flap:

"A novel that races along with all the alacrity of one of Kit's mounts at the Devon or Ascot race courses. A subtle twist at the end makes the jaunt all the more enjoyable."
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In Kit Fielding's breakneck world of steeplechase racing, the ultimate catastrophe strikes: Someone is shooting horses. As Kit races to stop the murdering madness, everyone in his upper-crust circle becomes a suspect--the princely rival who's trying to woo his woman, the personal enemy bent on ruining his family, not to forget the black-market arms dealer whose plans could imperil the globe. Much as the civilized side of him hates to admit it, Kit wonders if he should steel himself to the use of force...

From the Back Cover:

Kit Fielding’s patron, Princess Casilia, is in real trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless business partner. And to enforce the threat all the Princess’s best runners are being wantonly destroyed - shot by a bolt.

The only person she can turn to is Kit, but he has problems of his own. His fiance Danielle appears to have changed her mind. And his old feud with Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fieldings, has once again violently intensified.

Wherever he goes, the champion jockey seems to attract bloodshed...

‘One of the finest writers of his genre’ Good Housekeeping

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0425202887
• ISBN 13: 9780425202883
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288