Banker

by Dick Francis

Overview

An investment banker arranges the purchase of a champion racehorse and gets caught up in murder in this New York Times bestseller that's “fraught with violence, conspiracy and, of course, horses” (The Boston Globe).

Tim Ekaterin raised millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Sandcastle, a champion racer, only to discover an apparent defect in the horse. Investigating further, Ekaterin learns that the business of investment banking is nothing compared to the cutthroat world of horseracing—a world where violence and murder only raise the stakes...
 
“The most elaborate plot Francis has yet devised.”—The Washington Post Book World

“The unraveling…comes with all the breathless pace we have come to expect of this superb writer.”—The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425237755
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/02/2010
Series:	A Dick Francis Novel
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	396,787
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	880L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 - 17 Years

About the Author

Dick Francis was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.

He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.

A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Hometown:

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies

Date of Birth:

October 31, 1920

Date of Death:

February 14, 2010

Place of Birth:

Tenby, Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales

Place of Death:

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies

Education:

Dropped out of Maidenhead County School at age 15.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Banker

“The unraveling...comes with all the breathless pace we have come to expect of this superb writer.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“The most elaborate plot Francis has yet devised.”—The Washington Post Book World
 
“[Francis] is one of the world’s best tellers of tales, particularly in his field of mayhem and English horse racing, and Banker is one of his best.”—The Boston Globe
 
“The problem (the hero) confronts...is a masterpiece of ingenious complication.”—The Atlantic Monthly
 
“Excitingly thunders down the homestretch.”—Associated Press
 
“For those who have read and enjoyed the work of Francis, merely the announcement that another effort is out is usually enough to send them to the library or bookstore. Those who have not read him are in for a treat.”—Houston Chronicle

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