"A good romp.., archetypal Dick Francis"--DAILY MAlL

"The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care.., the entire story is a pleasure to relish’--SCOTSMAN

"Dick Francis’s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader’s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end"--SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham, his friend Gerard Logan becomes embroiled in a perilous search for a stolen videotape.

Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim. He has long beenaccustomed to the dangers inherent in working with molten glass, but now he is faced with a series of unexpected threats, first to his livelihood, then to his courage and, finally, to his life.

Believing the missing videotape to contain priceless information,and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, a vicious group of villains sets out to extract from him the information he does not have. Logan reckons that to survive he must find out the truth. The journey is a thorny one, and the final race to the tape throws more hurdles and more hazards in his way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12