Driving Force - Hardcover

Francis, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399137769 ISBN 13: 9780399137761

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1992

Synopsis

When a hitchhiker picked up by one of his drivers is later found murdered, ex-jockey Freddie Croft, the owner of a profitable fleet of horse vans, is drawn into the mystery. By the author of Comeback. 275,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

'A thundering good read.' (The Daily Mail)

'I enjoyed this book hugely.' (The Sunday Times)

'Galloping heroics ... the old master still engages all your interest.' (The Mail on Sunday)

About the Author:

Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott.

During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000.

Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0399137769
• ISBN 13: 9780399137761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1