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Also by Felix Francis:

Syndicate, July 2025
Trade Paperback
Syndicate, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
No Reserve, May 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
No Reserve, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Iced, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Hands Down, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Crisis, October 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Pulse, July 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
Pulse, October 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Triple Crown, October 2016
Hardcover
Front Runner, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Dick Francis' Gamble, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Dick Francis's Gamble, August 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Even Money, September 2009
Hardcover
Silks, September 2008
Hardcover

Also by Dick Francis:

Longshot, May 2010
Paperback (reprint)
Comeback, March 2010
Paperback
Even Money, September 2009
Hardcover
Silks, September 2008
Hardcover
Under Orders, August 2007
Paperback
Under Orders, September 2006
Hardcover
Whip Hand, June 2005
Paperback
Odds Against, February 2005
Paperback (reprint)

Silks
Felix Francis, Dick Francis

Putnam
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0399155333
EAN: 9780399155338
Hardcover
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Thriller

“Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.”

When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s ruling at London’s Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason realize that he’ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than that.

Setting aside his barrister’s gown and wig, Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murdered—a pitchfork driven through his chest—Mason’s racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming.

Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleading for legal help—but he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death…his own.

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