Author(s): Dick Francis

Fiction

 Physics teacher (and crack shot) Jonathan Derry is given some tapes to look after by a friend. They're not your usual tapes- they hold a computer program which functions as a bookie-breaking betting system. When Jonathan's friend is then killed in a suspicious explosion and two thugs turn up at his house waving guns and demanding the tapes, Jonathan realises that he's been handed a whole lot of trouble. Jonathan knows he won't be left alone unless he gives them what they want. However, he decides to play his own game. After all, he's a crack shot. He can look after himself - can't he? A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. 'At his best, Francis can make you feel the hot breath of horses on the back of your neck.' Sunday Express