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Blood Sport written by Dick Francis performed by Tony Britton on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

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A quarter of a million pounds worth of Derby-winning stallion has vanished in Kentucky, and a young man and a girl spend a dangerous afternoon in a punt on the Thames. From these distant but related beginnings, investigator Gene Hawkins must make sense of the events.

The Sport of Queens written by Dick Francis performed by Tony Britton on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781445811741
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Autobiography
Duration:  465 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Dick Francis
Narrator 1:  Tony Britton
Rarity:  Rare

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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.

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