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On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmaker - taking over the family business from his grandfather - so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings, and he counts his losses. He's seen the ups and downs before - but, as the big gambling conglomerates muscle in on small concerns like his, Ned wonders if it's worth it any more. When a grey-haired man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into far deeper turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash. Barely an hour later his newly found father is stabbed by an unknown assailant in the Ascot car park. Blood oozing from his abdomen, he warns Ned: 'Be very careful'. But of whom? Of what? Ned finds himself in a race to solve his father's riddles, a race where coming second could cost him more than even money, it could cost him his life.
Zakup książki
Even Money, Dick Francis, Felix Francis
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2010
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
Metody płatności
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- Tytuł
- Even Money
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Dick Francis, Felix Francis
- Wydawca
- Michael Joseph
- Rok wydania
- 2010
- Oprawa
- miękka
- ISBN10
- 0141048840
- ISBN13
- 9780141048840
- Seria
- Tagi
- Przyroda, Zwierzęta, Z dreszczykiem, Relacje, Anglia, Literatura angielska, Konie, Relacje rodzinne, Tajemnice rodzinne, Oszustwa, Radzenie sobie z przeszłością, Ojcowie i synowie, Wyścigi konne, Zakłady, loterie
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 2009
- Oryginalna nazwa
- Even Money
- Ocena
- 3,75 z 5
- Opis
- On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmaker - taking over the family business from his grandfather - so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings, and he counts his losses. He's seen the ups and downs before - but, as the big gambling conglomerates muscle in on small concerns like his, Ned wonders if it's worth it any more. When a grey-haired man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into far deeper turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash. Barely an hour later his newly found father is stabbed by an unknown assailant in the Ascot car park. Blood oozing from his abdomen, he warns Ned: 'Be very careful'. But of whom? Of what? Ned finds himself in a race to solve his father's riddles, a race where coming second could cost him more than even money, it could cost him his life.