Even money
Record details
- ISBN: 0718154584
- ISBN: 9780718154585 (hbk.) :
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Physical Description:
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382 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: London : Michael Joseph, c2009.
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Subject: | Royal Ascot -- Fiction Horse racing -- England -- Fiction Fathers and sons -- Fiction Fathers -- Crimes against -- Fiction Bookmakers (Gambling) -- Fiction Mystery fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- 14 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Fran (Text) | 33294001686815 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmakertaking over the family business from his grandfatherso he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings, and he his losses. He's seen the ups and downs beforebut, as the big gambling conglomerates muscle in on small concerns like his, Ned wonders if it's worth it any more. When a grey-haired man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into far deeper turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash. Barely an hour later, his newly found father is stabbed by an unknown assailant in the Ascot car park. Blood oozing from his abdomen, his father warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds himself in a race to solve his father's riddles, a race where coming second could cost him more than even money, it could cost him his life.