Издания и произведения

Тедди Тэлбот - букмекер. Не акула скакового бизнеса, не ночной кошмар проигравшихся, не хитрый змей-искуситель неопытных новичков. Добропорядочный англичанин, заботливый муж и добросовестный налогоплательщик. Но буквально несколько дней, одна жаркая неделя на королевских скачках в Аскоте - и привычная жизнь рушится. Теперь она полна риска, опасности и борьбы за существование. Тайны прошлого, вызовы настоящего заставляют Тедди Тэлбота измениться и изменить свою судьбу.

The third collaboration between bestseller Francis and son Felix, a taut crime thriller, features an especially sympathetic hero. Bookmaker Ed Talbot is struggling with his wife's mental illness, even as technology threatens to give the big bookmaking outfits an insurmountable advantage over his small family business. Soon after a man shows up at Ascot and identifies himself as Ed's father, Peter, whom Ed believed long dead, a thug demanding money stabs Peter to death. Ed is in for even more shocks when he learns his father was the prime suspect in his mother's murder - and that Peter's killing, rather than a random act of violence, may be…

Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.

Royal Ascot's first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as a string of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings, he counts his losses. When a grey-haired man steps out of the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash. Barely an hour later, Ned's newly found father is dying in Ascot's car park. Stabbed by an unknown assailant, he warns Ned to 'be very careful'. But of whom? Of what? In trying to discover the truth behind his father's disappearance and sudden reappearance, Ned puts himself and all that…