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Perry Stuart z Meteorologického střediska Britské televizní a rozhlasové korporace je velmi populární osobností a jeho předpovědi počasí znají snad všichni televizní diváci. Perry miluje svou práci a vzorně pečuje o svou osmdesátiletou invalidní babičku, která ho vychovala. K jejím varovným předtuchám, které se občas vyplní, se ale staví shovívavě a přes její naléhání se rozhodne se svým kolegou a přítelem, amatérským pilotem Krisem, uskutečnit v malém sportovním letadle průlet nebezpečným hurikánem. Netuší, že se díky tomu a také díky svým známým z prostředí dostihového sportu jeho život změní ve strašlivou bouři. V hurikán proslulý klidným okem i zničujícím druhým náporem. Z angl. orig. Second Wind přel. Jaroslava Moserová-Davidová.

Meteorologist Perry Stuart is offered a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. But he learns more secrets from the flight than wind speeds, and back home in England faces threats and dangers as deadly as anything nature can evolve.

Family ties mean trouble, chains and fatal obligations. And when steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens. A vicious newspaper campaign jeopardizes Bobby's career as a racehorse trainer. Putting behind him the age-old Allardeck-Fielding feud, Kit tries to find out who is behind it all. Combining his investigations with riding winners for the Princess - whose beautiful niece becomes more than a friend - he makes some startling discoveries. Caught up in the intrigue are powerful people who think a jockey should mind his own business and are prepared to use violence to make sure he does...

Matt Shore je skúsený pilot, ktorý lietal na všetkých typoch lietadiel. Poradil si vždy a všade. Riskovať život nie je preňho nič nové. Nečudo, má za sebou bohaté skúsenosti z čias, keď zásoboval vojnové zóny. A tak keď ho najmú, aby prepravoval na dostihové dráhy v celom Anglicku bohatých pasažierov - trénerov, funkcionárov, džokejov a divákov - teší sa na pokojný život. Z omylu ho vyvedie vlastný stroj, ktorý nečakane exploduje. Namiesto pokoja sa ocitá v nočnej more, kde sa hrá o veľké peniaze. O obrovský balik. Odteraz ho čaká strastiplná cesta, na ktorej ľudia nie sú takí, ako sa tvária, a na ktorej žne nečakane smrť. Je iba na ňom, či sa mu podarí uniknúť pazúrom, ktoré sa k nemu neúprosne naťahujú pri každej príležitosti...

To John Kendall it seemed a good idea to throw in his job in order to write a novel. Ten months later it seems an equally good idea to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a National Hunt racehorse trainer. By the end of the commission he will need to summon up all his survival skills.

A wanna-be jockey accepts a job in his father's campaign for Parliament--and realizes that politics can be the most perilous horse race of all.

The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another job—feeding several dozen attendees at a maj

A man doesn't publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. but Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted envy...Superbly exciting" - "Daily Express"."

There are few thriller writers who have had such long and distinguished careers as Dick Francis, and his lengthy series of books (with their zesty recreations of the racing world) are among many readers' favourite novels in the genre. Recently, ill-health seemed to threaten the author's reliable productivity, and the death of his wife (who had long been a behind-the-scenes collaborator on his books) made it appear that the golden days of the Dick Francis racing thriller were firmly in the past. However, here is Silks, the result of a collaboration between Dick Francis and his son Felix -- and it will be a welcome arrival for the legions of Francis admirers. Julian Trent is found guilty of a violent unprovoked attack on an innocent family and a charge of attempted murder. He is accused by the judge of showing no remorse for his actions, but receives a remarkably light sentence. Surprisingly, this news is not welcome to his defence barrister, Geoffrey Mason, who was secretly hoping for a more severe judgement against his client, whom he does not like. Mason is a part-time jockey (this is a novel with Dick Francis's name on the jacket, after all), and when Mason dons his racing silks and travels to Sandown to follow his real passion -- riding a thoroughbred in a heated steeplechase -- he finds that he cannot leave the violence that is often the bread and butter of his profession behind him A fellow rider is savagely killed by a pitchfork driven through the chest, and there is a persuasive amount of evidence against champion jockey Steve Mitchell as the killer, but Mason becomes involved -- and finds all the various aspects of his life coalescing in a lethal fashion.

A film stuntman becomes involved in real life action and adventure in this thriller from Dick Francis, author of numerous bestsellers including Blood Sport". "

Hlavní postavou detektivního románu je bývalý žokej Sid Halley. Po úrazu ruky musel zanechat závodění a nový smysl života našel jako soukromý detektiv. Stále se pohybuje především v prostředí milovaných dostihů. Řeší nezákonné spekulace s akciemi dostihových závodišť, likvidaci nejlepších závodních koní, úplatkářství. Oporou je mu jeho přítel Chic Barnes, učitel džuda. Jako úspěšný tandem společně objasňují případy, jež se podivuhodně prolínají. Nebezpečná pátraní je přivádí do nečekaných situací, které vyústí v bezprostřední ohrožení života. Z angl. orig. Whip Hand přel. Jaroslava Moserová-Davidová.

Gene Hawkins woke on the first day of his holiday with his hand on the Luger under his pillow, and a ringing in his ears. His boss was on the phone, inviting him on a family boat trip up the Thames. Keeble didn't fraternise with his employees unless he wanted something. What he wanted now was for Gene to spend three weeks looking for kidnapped stallions in Kentucky. He wouldn't take no for an answer. But before the afternoon was out Gene's survival skills were called on cloer to home - catapulting him into a maelstrom of blackmail and murder that would turn the blue grass of Kentucky to red...Rivals his excellent Flying Finish" - "Times Literary Supplement". "Thundering skullduggery...impressive turn of speed ...champion form" - "Sunday Telegraph"."

Samotářský podivín Alexander Kinloch maluje obrazy, hraje na dudy a žije ve skotských horách. Ti, kdo ho dobře znají, vědí, že je to člověk se smyslem pro spravedlnost a věrnost. Strýc mu proto svěří do péče jílec starého obřadného meče a umírající nevlastní otec si zase přeje, aby ukryl cenného koně a vzácnou dostihovou trofej, které chce zachránit před rodinným bankrotem. Alexandr se musí rozhodnout, zda vyslyší otcovo přání a postará se o zděděný majetek, nebo raději zachrání bankrotující rodinný pivovar. Z angl. orig. To the Hilt přel. Jaroslava Moserová-Davidová.

Sid Halley had one good hand and another made of metal. Five hundred pounds of horse had landed on him, directly ending his career as a brilliant jockey - and indirectly ending his marriage to the woman he loved. He had become a private investigator, quite a good one, though his new life could never erase the haunting memories of his past glories. But it was only when the wife of one of England's top trainers came to beg his help in preventing some foul play at the track that Sid Halley began to know what being haunted really was...

Sid Halley, an injured jockey, becomes a private eye and carries out some work for his father-in-law, who believes a man is trying to financially ruin Seabury racecourse, so that it can be sold to property developers. From the author of Straight" and "The Edge"."

Svoj najnovší román z dostihového prostredia napísal autor spolu so synom. Keď sa majiteľ obľúbenej dostihovej reštaurácie otrávi jedlom z vlastného podniku spolu s inými hosťami, ocitá sa v nepríjemnom položení. Ani obava zo straty živnosti však nie je taká hrozivá ako strach o svoj život...