Book description
When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his
chief patron, Princess Casilia, is facing an increasingly serious
threat, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid. Neither realises that his
instinctive support is the first step towards a frightening battle
involving violent risk, with the honour of the princess's family as the
prize and Kit's own destruction as the forfeit. Beset by other problems,
not least his troubled romance with Danielle, the princess's niece, Kit
knows that while steering through a maze of deadly outside dangers and
riding at breakneck speed in races, he must also contend with the
long-term hatred of his own family's enemy. Many of the characters from
BREAK IN reappear in this superbly told story. Dick Francis has
written forty books, all of them bestsellers, the last being SECOND
WIND. He is widely acclaimed as one of the world's finest thriller
writers.
