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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.
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Even Money, Dick Francis, Felix Francis
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- Année de publication
- 2010
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- Titre
- Even Money
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Dick Francis, Felix Francis
- Éditeur
- Michael Joseph
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0141048840
- ISBN13
- 9780141048840
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, La nature, Animaux, Thriller, Suspense, Relations, Polars classiques, Angleterre, Littérature anglaise, Chevaux, Relations familiales, Fraudes, Secrets de famille, Faire face au passé, Courses de chevaux, Pères et fils, Paris, loteries
- Première publication
- 2009
- Titre original
- Even Money
- Évaluation
- 3,75 sur 5
- Description
- 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.