Book description
Crossfire is the new thriller from father son team Dick
Francis and Felix Francis.
Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short
when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb.
Returning home, to his mother - a racehorse trainer and the 'First
Lady' of racing - Tom discovers the training business is on the edge,
and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form.
Tom finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly,
battlefield where his military skills are tested . . . kill or be killed?
From Felix Francis and Dick Francis, the bestselling co-authors of
Dead Heat and Even Money comes Crossfire, the
latest Dick Francis novel. Packed with all the hair-raising suspense
and excitement readers know and love from Dick Francis,
Crossfire is the most dazzling yet.
Praise for the Dick Francis novels:
'The Francis flair is clear for all to see' Daily Mail
'Spare, efficient and unflashy . . . inexorably draws you in'
Daily Telegraph
'The master of suspense and intrigue' Country Life
'Still the master' Racing Post
Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt
jockeys. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his
autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write
forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories and the
biography of Lester Piggott.
Dick Francis died in February, 2010, at the age of 89, but he
remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
Felix Francis is the younger of Dick's two sons. Since 2006, Felix
has taken a more significant role in the writing, first with Dead
Heat and then increasingly with the bestsellers, Silks and
Even Money. Crossfire is the fourth novel of this
father-and-son collaboration.
Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National
Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in
1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most
famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement
from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of
Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a
volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of
Lester Piggott.
During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them
the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger
for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best-novel'
Edgar Allen Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he
was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In
1998, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and
was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000.
Dick Francis died in February, 2010, at the age of 89, but he
remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
Felix Francis is the younger of Dick's two sons. Over the
last forty years Felix has assisted with the research of many of the
Dick Francis novels, not least Twice Shy, Shattered
and Under Orders. But since 2006, Felix has taken a
more significant role in the writing, first with Dead Heat and
then increasingly with the bestsellers, Silks and Even
Money. Crossfire is the fourth novel of this father-and-son collaboration.
