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Silks Audio Book
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Silks
Authors:
Dick Francis and Felix Francis
Reader: Martin Jarvis
Lawyer Geoffrey Mason has a colorful hobby: he's an amateur jockey. But when a fellow rider is murdered, Mason's hobby becomes too close to his work – the suspect is another jockey, one who pleads for Mason's help. Now confronted with violence and threats, Mason is left fighting a battle of life and death – his own. "The smooth and supremely versatile Jarvis inhabits a plethora of diverse characters... His timing is also impeccable. Expect to be addicted and listening through the night."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 08/26/2008
ISBN: 9780143143857
Special Pricing expires 01/31/2009
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After his client, the arrogant Julian Trent, is convicted and sentenced to jail, Geoffrey Mason, a defense barrister with a passion for horse racing, finds himself caught in the middle of a sinister web of intimidation and danger when he reluctantly becomes involved in the case of jockey Steve Mitchell, accused of killing a fellow steeplechase rider. Simultaneous.
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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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