The Edge (A Dick Francis Novel) - Softcover

Francis, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425204391 ISBN 13: 9780425204399

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005

Synopsis

A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich.

But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone for everything they've got.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Dick Francis, a former jockey, brings his experience of racing and life around the racetrack to his mysteries. (And so far Francis is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award for writing the best mystery of the year.) This horse racing background is appealing to my market area of Southern California. Racing is a popular sport amongst Southlanders.

--Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales

From the Inside Flap:

de force...A steadily high level of interest, comedy, suspense, and surprise."
THE ATLANTIC
The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race is not only a glittering rail junket that promises the oportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but is something more: an intriguing mystery will be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But included on the guest list is one Julius Apollo Filmer, justifiably reputed to be the most ruthless operator lurking in the racing underworld, and he's planning a strange plot of his own. For Tor Kelsey, undercover security agent for the British Jockey Club, a scenario of imaginary mayhem is about to explode into a nightmare of real and bloody murder.

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0425204391
• ISBN 13: 9780425204399
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368