"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in one afternoon was sufficiently unusual
to raise more than an eyebrow." It's the third death that really troubles former champion jump-jockey
Sid Halley. He knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach
the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds Huw Walker -
the new winner of the Triumph Hurdle and Halley's friend. Now former friend. Walker was riding one of
Lord Enstone's horses in the Hurdle and it was the inimitable owner who invited Halley in the first
place. His brief: to make discrete enquiries into alleged race fixing.Are results being rigged?
Are bookies taking a cut? And if so, are trainers and jockeys playing a dangerous game with stakes
far higher than they realise ...Halley's quest for answers draws him ever deeper into the darker side
of the race game, in a life-or-death power-play that will push him to his very limits -
both professionally and personally.

About The Reader
Anthony Edward Lowry Britton (born June 9, 1924 in Birmingham), is a veteran English film and
television actor known as Tony Britton. He is the father of presenter Fern Britton and actor Jasper
Britton. He attended Edgbaston Collegiate School, Birmingham and Thornbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire.
During World War II he served in the Army and he also worked for an estate agents and in an aircraft factory.
He joined an amateur dramatic Group in Weston-super-Mare and then turned professional, appearing at The Old
Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company on stage. He has appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s
onwards, including such classics as Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and The Day of the Jackal (1973). From 1983
to 1990, he starred with Nigel Havers and Dinah Sheridan in the popular BBC sitcom, Don't Wait Up. His other
sitcoms appearances include ...And Mother Makes Five and Robin's Nest.

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