This novel emerged from the Dick Francis stable in 1981, another in a long line of horse racing based novels. In this novel a computerised betting system (in 1981??) falls into the hands of Jonathan Derry, but unless he gets it back to the rightful owners his life is in danger. Derry is a school teacher who is given cassette tapes (1981 remember) of the computer code by a friend who is subsequently killed. Then Derry is visited at his home by a couple of thugs. And we are off and running again on another Dick Francis ride.The first half of the book concerns Jonathan's trials and tribulations with the bad guys while the second half is about William, Jonathan's younger brohter, who takes up the story some years later when the thugs have been released from prison, still on the trail of the tapes.
8/10 for me.
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