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Dead Cert Audio Book
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Dead Cert
Author:
Dick Francis
Reader: James Fox
When his rival has a fatal accident in the middle of a race, steeplechaser Alan York finds the cause – a tripwire rigged to take down a running horse. It was no accident, it was murder. Clearly somebody wanted that jockey dead. And the more Alan investigates, the more likely he is to take a fall himself. The first mystery from Dick Francis.
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Publish Date: 09/09/2008
ISBN: 9780061498213
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Synopsis:
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Jockey Alan York kept his eyes locked on the horse ahead of him, hoping to gain on him in the final stretch. But when the horse's jockey, Bill Davidson, slumped over dead in his saddle, Alan knew foul play was the cause, but could only guess at the sinister plot that lay behind the murder.
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Author Bio:
After serving six years in the Royal Air Force, including three years as a fighter pilot in World War II, Dick Francis followed in his father's footsteps to become a champion jockey, winning over 350 races. He won numerous awards and titles during his career, including Champion Jockey in 1953 and 1954. In the 1956 Grand National Steeplechase, Francis was only a few lengths from winning the race he had entered for the eighth time, but with no one in his path, his horse collapsed just before the finish line, prompting him to call the event "both the high point and low point of my career as a jockey." Soon afterwards he began working on his autobiography, "The Sport of Queens", published in 1957, the same year he retired from racing.
Francis had found a new calling, as a racing correspondant for the "London Sunday Express". He published his first novel, "Dead Cert", in 1962, and has continued writing mystery novels and short stories based in the world of horse racing. His protagonists, who range from local jockeys to international spies, often suffer brutal, torturous situations and must battle to free themselves and see justice served. He and his wife, Mary, have been married for more than 50 years.
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