When globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin returns to his childhood home fo a visit, he is sorry. Waiting for him were long-hidden memories, a string of racehorse deaths and homicide. As Darwin begins to realize that the key to all of it involves his own past, he wishes he'd never come back, because he just might never leave again --- alive.... "One of Francis' most winning novels." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club
Na de verdwijning van de derde dure hengst van een Amerikaanse miljonair gaat een Engelse beveiligingsagent naar de V.S. om het mysterie op te lossen.
Daniel Roke, Australian who established a stud farm to raise orphaned siblings, accepts undercover stable lad job from the Earl of October, investigating steeplechase doping in England. At least ten horses win adrenalin-high stimulated, but regular lab tests show nothing. Gorgeous October daughters distract, detract, and fatally endanger. Tension builds into an explosive fight to the death.