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Another thriller set in the world of horse racing by this best-selling author.

Living in his remote Scottish eyrie Alexander Kinloch is used to seeing hikers. But unlike his usual visitors, they are not asking for a cup of tea or directions.

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble.

About family relationships and about the use and abuse of power as champion jockey Kit Fielding seeks to defend his sister and her husband (a race horse trainer) from a spiteful newspaper campaign.

Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker.

No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather.

"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world.

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.