The Edge - Brossura

Francis, Dick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0425204391 ISBN 13: 9780425204399

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.

He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.

A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0425204391
• ISBN 13: 9780425204399
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile