At nearly eighteen, easy-going young Benedict Julliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. As his father, George, makes his ambitious drive towards the Prime Ministership and occupancy of No. 10 Downing Street, Ben is plunged into a frightening morass of lies and treachery. Read More...

Valentine, a blind, confused and dying old man, seeking his peace with God, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest. This puts Thomas in a moral dilemma. Wild horses wouldn't drag from a priest the secrets of the confessional - but then Thomas is not a priest. Read More...

When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds that Princess Casilia, his chief patron, is facing serious trouble, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid. Neither realises that his instinctive support is the first step to a frightening battle involving violent risk, with the honour of the princess's family as the prize and Kit's own destruction as the forfeit. Read More...

Randall Drew is prevented from carrying on his career in steeplechasing by poor eyesight. Restless and unsure of his future but pursuing an ardent love affair, he does not welcome an invitation to go to Moscow on a delicate investigation, but almost irresistible pressures are brought to bear. Read More...

Blood ties can mean trouble, chains and fatal obligation. Champion steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding, snared by bonds reaching back into history, discovers this to be only too true when he finds he cannot escape from an intensely dangerous situation. Read More...

Jonathon Derry, crack shot with a rifle and pretty good in the classroom, was contented in general with his life as a schoolmaster and, but for the frantic action of a distant friend, would never have found himself plunged into a dark world of danger. Read More...

Philip Nore, steeplechase jockey, asked no more from life than horses to ride and time to himself to spend on his other great interest, photography. Like a minefield of dragons' teeth, whole crops of problems suddenly erupted in his path, disturbing and threatening and ultimately dangerous. Read More...

Tor Kelsey, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club's Security Service, is involved in the attempt to rid racing of one of its most notorious villains, the improbably named Julius Apollo Filmer. Read More...

Moira Pembroke, avaricious and calculating, is brutally murdered, her face pushed down into a sack of potting compost. Moira was multi-millionaire Malcolm Pembroke's fifth wife and their marriage estranged Malcolm form his favourite son, Ian. But it is to Ian that Malcolm now turns for help. Read More...

For the first time, Dick Francis has compiled a volume of short stories, the settings ranging form the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham, where a middle-aged owner falls helplessly in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where the demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. Read More...