Crossfire

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. AF6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some label residue, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.25, 336 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Dick Francis (Richard Stanley Francis) was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence in 1956 as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch. It fell when he was close to winning the Grand National. Francis retired from the turf and became a journalist and novelist. All his novels deal with crime in the horse-racing world, with some of the criminals being outwardly respectable figures. The stories are narrated by one of the key players, often a jockey, but sometimes a trainer, an owner, a bookie, or someone in a different profession, peripherally linked to racing. This person is always facing great obstacles, often including physical injury, from which he must fight back with determination. More than forty of these novels became international best-sellers. Felix Francis is a British crime writer. He is Dick Francis' younger son.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.