A very little known fact is that I also wrote a novel and I called it Hot Money. The difference between me and Dick Francis is that he completed his, submitted it to a publisher and got it out there. Mine remains 3/4 finished (3 years later) with a few publisher's rejection slips. Take action!
This 1987 outing for Dick Francis sees a wealthy gold trader with five ex-wives and nine children all at it hammer and tongs. However when one violent death visits the worst of the ex-spouses, the trader Malcolm Pembroke calls in his son Ian, a jockey, to protect him. We are back into the horse racing world again with Dick Francis. Something his avid readers never tire of.
Ian and Malcolm become reconciled but it is clear that a family member is intent on their own agenda and the jockey becomes bodyguard becomes detective. The novel is really good and I enjoyed reading it. The hot money is money that is used to gain inside knowledge. The hot money is used to seek the truth.
8/10 for me.
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