Book description
When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races,
he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search
for a stolen video tape. Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of
widespread acclaim for the ingenuity of his work. Long accustomed to
the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a
furnace at never less than 1,800F, he is suddenly faced with a series
of terrifying threats to his business and to his life.
But the chilling race to find the tape throws more hazards in
Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.
Dick Francis has written thirty-seven international bestsellers and
is widely acclaimed as one of the world's finest thriller writers,
having first been a champion National Hunt jockey. His awards include
the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for the best novel and the
Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the crime
genre. The Mystery Writers of America have given him three Edgar Allan
Poe awards for the best novel of the year - the latest for Come to Grief
- and in 1996 made him a Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement.
