KNOCK DOWN. - Hardcover

Francis, Dick.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718112970 ISBN 13: 9780718112974

Publisher: Michael Joseph (1974)., 1974

Synopsis

Physical description; 1 volume ; 20 cm. Subject; Race horses - Great Britain - Fiction.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Dick Francis, a former jockey, brings his experience of racing and life around the racetrack to his mysteries. (And so far Francis is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award for writing the best mystery of the year.) This horse racing background is appealing to my market area of Southern California. Racing is a popular sport amongst Southlanders.

--Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales

From the Back Cover:

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 their little kickback scam is threatened with a spot of old-fashioned honesty.

But they haven’t reckoned with bloodstock agent Jonah Dereham, a man who belies his quiet exterior with a steely and implacable resolve. They can threaten him, try to burn down his home, even attempt to kill him. But they’ll soon wish they hadn’t.

Because Dereham flushes out the real scam, and with it finds out just who the real Mr Big is. And when he does that, life suddenly becomes cheap...

‘Another wonderfully effective thriller’ Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph (1974).
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0718112970
• ISBN 13: 9780718112974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206