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Undercover investigator jeff hinkley is assigned by the british horseracing authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as hes tailing his quarry through the cheltenham racing festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome. Felix francis will sign and discuss dick franciss damage putnam. Franciss fourth solo outing after 20s dick franciss refusal ranks with the best of his late fathers thrillers set in the british horse racing. Buy a cheap copy of front runner book by felix francis. Below is a list of felix francis books in order of when they were originally released. Sep 19, 2019 discover book depositorys huge selection of felix francis books online.
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Its almost as if felix francis was following an outline that required certain situations being present in a plot, and felt he had to get all of them in somehow. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Retired by a crippling injury from his first career as a jockey and retired by fears for his family and his peace of mind from his second as a private eye, sid halley just wants to be left alone with his biologist wife, marina, and their daughter, saskia, 6. Hed been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
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