Several valuable racehorses have unexplained deaths and Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers part of the plot involving a veterinary surgeon.
Darwin is on holiday in Miami (one of Dick Francis's haunts) where he becomes caught up in a scuffle involving two acquaintances who are beaten and robbed. He goes with his new friends back to Gloucestershire in England and his old childhood home town. This is where he stumbles upon the plot of the vet.
The novel focuses on Darwin as he unravels the mystery for us before our readers eyes as we are ridden across the pages again with Dick Francis firmly in the saddle.
8/10 for me.
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