Shot Silk (U)

'Lip-biting, chair-gripping, racing fiction at its best.' - WILLIE CARSON It began with a note from a stable lad, a boy Simon Drake was destined never to meet - except on a mortuary slab, the victim of a hit-and-run 'accident'. After several years with Turf Security, Drake knew enough of the fraud and sharp practice in the racing world to want to keep out of it, and concentrate on the running of the Braxburn Stud. But the combination of a millionaire breeder-owner whose wife has a weakness for young men, and a crack jockey who's in danger of losing his licence, adds up to trouble, and Drake is right in the path of it...