For Kicks - Dick Francis

Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke has resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes - and learns that men who would give drugs to horses would do much worse to human beings. This is Francis at his finest, and an entertaining insight into the murky world of race-fixing. The usual excellent combination of racing and crime. ...