Crisis manager and training lawyer Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the stables kills six prestigious horses. Foster suspects foul play, and - to make matters worse - dislikes horses but, while representing the Middle-Eastern owners of a Derby favourite, stands at the edge of a network of secrets that will put his own life in danger.

Felix Francis studied Physics and Electronics at London University and then spent seventeen years teaching Advanced-Level Physics. The younger son of crime writer and Naional Hunt jockey Dick Francis, Felix assisted his father with both the research and writing of his novels in a father-and-son writing partnership. Since Dick's death, Felix has written ten successful novels, the latest being Front Runner.