At thirty-five, Freddie Croft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners form their stables to the races, or brood mares to the stud farms. One of the hard and fast rules for all his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker, but of course one day they do, and by the time they reach base the passenger is dead. Read More...

A fellow forecaster offers Perry Stuart a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By frightening accident, Stuart learns more secrets from the flight than wind speeds - and back home in England he faces danger as deadly as anything nature can evolve. Read More...

Free Choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris, architect, engineer, jobbing builder and entrepreneur. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality, he says. Stratton Park racecourse, privately owned, faces ruin in the hands of squabbling family. Read More...

Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns to England from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood. Read More...

Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator, faces new dilemmas, new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. As the book opens, Sid Halley has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in affection bordering on love. Read More...

Despite knowing precious little about the world of racing, John Kendall agrees to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a highly successful National Hunt racecourse trainer. But ignorance proves to be harrowing: Kendall's impulsive decision stretches his survival skills and ingenuity to the limit. Read More...